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Webster 1913 Edition
Quatrain
Quat′rain
,Noun.
(Pros.)
A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quatrain
QUAT'RAIN
,Noun.
A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Definition 2024
quatrain
quatrain
English
Noun
quatrain (plural quatrains)
- a poem in four lines
- a stanza of four lines
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
- Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
- And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
- The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.
Translations
a stanza of four lines