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QUATRAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stanza of four lines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quatrain" is a kind of...):
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quatrain"):
elegiac stanza (a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme)
heroic stanza (a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab)
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