quatrain
Four-line verse
A quatrain is a stanza or poem of four lines, typically with a rhyme scheme.
It's one of the most common units in Western poetry, appearing in sonnets, ballads, and hymns: The poem consists of three quatrains and a couplet.
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
- tercetThree-line verse unit
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
ballad · ode · limerick · haiku · villanelle · rondeau · sestina · tanka
Device that measures usage
- footLeg's lowest part
- iambTwo-syllable metrical foot
- trocheeStressed-then-unstressed foot
- anapestTrisyllabic metrical foot
dactyl · spondee · tetrameter · pentameter · hexameter · scansion · stressed · unstressed
Sound-matching arrangement in poetry
- ABBASwedish disco-era pop group
- voltaRepeated section's alternate ending
- turnRotational movement
- lineationDivision into lines
enjambment · caesura · strophe · envelope · alternating · enclosed · heroic · elegiac
Alternating eight-six syllable lines
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · ballad · ode · limerick · haiku · villanelle · rondeau · sestina · tanka · epigram
meter
Device that measures usage
anapest · dactyl · spondee · tetrameter · pentameter · hexameter · scansion · stressed · unstressed · syllable
rhyme scheme
Sound-matching arrangement in poetry
lineation · enjambment · caesura · strophe · envelope · alternating · enclosed · heroic · elegiac · refrain
common meter
Alternating eight-six syllable lines
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- literary elementsplot, character, setting, theme, narrator
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- Poetry & Lyricsverse, rhyme, stanza, meter, couplet
- versepoem, stanza, couplet, sonnet, rhyme
- foursfour elements, four directions, four corners, four suits, four horsemen