Definition of "quatrain" []

• A stanza or poem of four lines. (noun)

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• "It starts promisingly enough, with the gypsy Maleva's famous quatrain from the original: "Even a man who is pure in heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms/And the autumn moon is bright.""
• "The meaning of that quatrain is clearer than the first lines of the poem: “The bottoms of autumn/Wear diamonds of frost.”"
• "Some anthologies – not many – include the early sonnet to his brothers, whose hushed first quatrain is a paragon of detail-work and scene-setting:"