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Four lines, one punch — poetry's favorite unit of commitment.
means A four-line stanza or poem, usually with a set rhyme scheme (like ABAB or ABBA) that binds the lines together.
from From French quatrain, built on quatre, 'four,' itself from Latin quattuor. The form traveled widely — Persian and Arabic poets prized four-line verses long before the French word existed — but the English term arrives via that French root, a tidy label stitched onto a shape poets kept reaching for across cultures.
- rhyme schemes
- ABAB, AABB, or ABBA, poet's choice
- omar khayyam
- Rubaiyat is quatrains stacked into a whole philosophy
- nursery rhymes
- most are secretly quatrains in disguise
- word origin
- from French quatre, just meaning four