单词	quatrain
释义	quatrain /ˈkwɒtreɪn / noun A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.... We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides. By the time he has finished the first stanza, this is the form he seems to have chosen: a three-stress-per-line stanza of four lines, a quatrain in which the second and fourth lines rhyme. Origin Late 16th century: from French, from quatre 'four'.
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