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# quatrain

«quatrain» in Mova's school dictionary: **A verse or stanza of a poem with four lines, often with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a quatrain, quatrains)

### meaning for a pupil

A verse or stanza of a poem with four lines, often with a rhyme pattern like ABAB or AABB. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons on poetry pupils count lines and spot rhyme schemes; many nursery rhymes, hymns and ballads are made of quatrains. Phrases: «write a quatrain», «a rhyming quatrain», «the first quatrain».

### examples

- A quatrain is a stanza with four lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x1)
- «Twinkle, twinkle, little star» starts with a quatrain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x2)
- Write a quatrain about the sea with the rhyme scheme AABB. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x3)
- Each verse of the hymn is a quatrain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x4)
- The poem has three quatrains and a couplet at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x5)
- In the quatrain, lines 1 and 3 rhyme, and so do lines 2 and 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/#x6)

### note

Countable: quatrain, quatrains. Pronounced KWOT-rain. Poetry words for line counts: couplet (2), tercet (3), quatrain (4), quintain or cinquain (5). From French «quatre» (four).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quatrain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quatrain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.