Quatrain

A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry.

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• abab (from "The Unquiet Grave")

: "The wind doth blow today, my love

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: And a few small drops of rain;

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: I never had but one true-love

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: In cold grave she was lain.

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• xbyb (from "The Wife of Usher's Well")
  

: There lived a wife at Usher's Well,

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: And a wealthy wife was she;

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: She had three stout and stalwart sons,

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: And sent them oer the sea.

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• aabb (from William Blake, "The Tyger")
  

: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

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: In the forests of the night,

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