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n. A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A stanza of four lines riming alternately.
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n. a stanza of four lines
Word Usage
"It starts promisingly enough, with the gypsy Maleva's famous quatrain from the original: "Even a man who is pure in heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms/And the autumn moon is bright.""