
Poetstrain Homepage Poetry Forms Handbook: Introduction Glossary of Poetry Terms Meter Iamb Iambic Pentameter Rhyme scheme Couplet Stanza Alliteration Pun Sensory Language Imagery Simile Metaphor Types of Poetry Acrostic Ballad Blank verse Cinquain Diamante Epic poem Free Verse Haiku Limerick Ode Pantoum Quatrain Senryu Shape poetry Sonnet Tanka Villanelle Conclusion Practice: Try Out What You've Learned At The Poetry Forum!	Quatrain Poetry Quatrain As the name indicates, a quatrain is a group of four lines. They are usually stanzas of a longer poem, and they can be any meter (thus any number of syllables per line). There are also variations on the rhyme scheme: abab or alternating rhyme; abba or envelope rhyme; aaba, bbcb, ccdc (chain rhyme); and aabb (pairs of couplets) are some possibilities. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? --William Blake, from The Tyger This is a common style of poetry used by many poets from all cultures over the ages, and is as old as rhyme itself.

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Introduction

Glossary of Poetry Terms

Meter
Iamb
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme scheme
Couplet
Stanza
Alliteration
Pun
Sensory Language
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor

Types of Poetry

Acrostic
Ballad
Blank verse
Cinquain
Diamante
Epic poem
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Ode
Pantoum
Quatrain
Senryu
Shape poetry
Sonnet
Tanka
Villanelle

Conclusion

Practice:

Try Out What
You've Learned
At The Poetry Forum!

Quatrain Poetry

Quatrain
As the name indicates, a quatrain is a group of four lines. They are usually stanzas of a longer poem, and they can be any meter (thus any number of syllables per line). There are also variations on the rhyme scheme: abab or alternating rhyme; abba or envelope rhyme; aaba, bbcb, ccdc (chain rhyme); and aabb (pairs of couplets) are some possibilities.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

--William Blake, from The Tyger

This is a common style of poetry used by many poets from all cultures over the ages, and is as old as rhyme itself.