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Four Line Poetry FormsQuatrains are four line stanzas of any type, rhyme, or meter. In this site will be discussed the more popular and traditional forms. Quick guide to forms(for more information click on the form) |
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Ballad Stanza |
Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. b. iambic tetrameter, (4 feet) |
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Clerihew (Satirical Poetry) |
Rhyme Scheme a. a. b. b. Dipodic meter, |
| Common Measure | Rhyme Scheme a4. b3. c4. b3. alternating iambic meter |
| Envelope Stanza | Rhyme Scheme a. b. b. a. Eight Syllabes, or iambic tetrameter, (4 feet) |
| Goethe Stanza | Rhyme Scheme a. . b. a. . b. No Meter, |
| Half Measure | Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. b., or: a. b. c. b. iambic trimeter, (3 feet) |
| Heroic Stanza | Rhyme Scheme a. b. c. b. iambic pentameter, (5 feet) |
| Hymnal Measure | Rhyme Scheme a4. b3. a4. b3. alternating iambic meter |
| Italian Quatrain | Rhyme Scheme a. b. b. a. iambic pentameter, (5 feet) |
| Long Measure | Rhyme Scheme a. b. c. b. iambic tetrameter, (4 feet) |
| Quatern | A. b. a. b ..b. A. b. a ..a. b. A. b ..b. a. b. A. A. x. x. x ..x. A. x. x ..x. x. A. x ..x. x. x. A. eight or ten syllable form |
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Redondilla, (Spanish Quatrain) |
Rhyme Scheme; a. b. b. a..or..a. b. a. b.. or...a. a. b. b. tetrameter (8 syllables) |
| Sapphic Stanza | Three lines of two trochees, one dactyl and two trochees. Last line dactyl and trochee |
| Shaira | Rhyme Scheme a. a. a. a. sixteen-syllable lines |
| Short Measure | Rhyme Scheme a3. b3. a4. b3. alternating iambic meter |
| Sicilian Quatrain | Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. b. Tetrameter or Pentameter, (4 or 5 feet) |
| Un-wreathed Quatrain | External Rhyme Scheme b. a. b. a. Internal Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. x. No set meter |
| Wreathed Quatrain | External Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. b. Internal Rhyme Scheme x. a. b. a. No set meter |
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