Definition of Quatrein

Quat"rain (?), n. [F., fr. quatre four, L. quattuor, quatuor. See Four.] (Pros.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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