Editing Quatrain (section)

==Forms==
[[File:Henric Piccardt (Landry).jpg|thumb|Portrait of [[Henric Piccardt]]. Engraving by Pierre Landry from 1672 after a lost painting by  [[Nicolaes Maes]].<br>Under the portrait, a quatrain by [[Guy Patin]].]]

*The '''heroic stanza''' or '''elegiac stanza''' consists of the [[iambic pentameter]], with the [[rhyme scheme]] of ABAB.
An example can be found in the following of [[Thomas Gray]]'s "[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]".
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
</poem>
*The '''hymnal stanza''' consists of alternating rhymes with the [[iambic trimeter]] and the [[iambic tetrameter]], with a rhyme scheme of ABCB.
An example can be found in [[Robert Burns]], "[[A Red, Red Rose]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=A Red, Red Rose |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43812/a-red-red-rose |website=Poetry foundation |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O, my luve’s like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
</poem>
*The '''memoriam stanza''' consists of the [[iambic tetrameter]] and a rhyme scheme of ABBA.
An example can be found in [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]]'s "[[In Memoriam A.H.H.]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Prosody, In Memoriam Stanza |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/In-Memoriam-stanza |website=Britannica |publisher=The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touch’d me from the past,
And all at once it seem’d at last
The living soul was flash’d on mine.
</poem>
*An '''envelope stanza''' is when the same [[stanza]] starts and ends a poem with little change of wording, although this term is also used on stanzas that have a symmetrical rhyme scheme of ABBA.
An example can be found in [[William Blake]]'s "[[The Tyger]]". (These are the first and last stanzas of the poem) <ref>{{cite web |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095753464 |website=Oxford Reference |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
...
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
</poem>
*The '''ballad stanza''' consists of the [[Iamb (poetry)|iambic]] [[Metre (poetry)|tetrameter]] with a rhyme scheme of ABCB (see '''[[ballad stanza]]''' for more details).<ref>{{cite web |title=Ballad |url=https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/ballad |website=Litcharts |publisher=From the creators of SparkNotes, something better |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
An example can be found in “[[La Belle Dame sans Merci]]” by [[John Keats]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of Ballad |url=http://www.literarydevices.com/ballad/ |website=Literary Devices |publisher=Literary Devices, Terms, and Elements |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
</poem>
*The [[Ruba'i]] form of rhymed quatrain was favored by [[Persian language|Persian-language]] poet [[Omar Khayyám]], among others. This work was a major inspiration for [[Edward Fitzgerald (poet)|Edward FitzGerald's]] ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]''. The ''ruba'i'' was a particularly widespread verse form: the form ''rubaiyat'' reflects the plural. One of FitzGerald's verses<ref>Verse VII, see [[s:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (tr. Fitzgerald, 5th edition)|''Rubaiyat'' version at Wikisource]]</ref> may serve to illustrate:
<poem style="margin-left:3em">
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing.
</poem>
*The [[Midnight Songs poetry]] form is from Fourth Century China, consisting of regular five-character lines, with each quatrain formed from a pair of rhymed couplets. The person matter involves the personal thoughts and feelings of a courtesan during the four seasons, into which the quatrains are individually assigned.
*[[Shairi]] (also known as Rustavelian Quatrain) is an AAAA rhyming form used mainly in ''[[The Knight in the Panther's Skin]]''.
*The [[Shichigon-zekku]] form used on [[Classical Chinese poetry]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]] poetry. This type of quatrain uses a seven-character line length. Both rhyme and rhythm are key elements, although the former is not restricted to falling at the end of the phrase.
*[[Ballad]] meter (The examples from "The Unquiet Grave" and "The Wife of Usher's Well" are both examples of ballad meter.)
*[[Decasyllabic quatrain]] used by [[John Dryden]] in ''[[Annus Mirabilis (poem)|Annus Mirabilis]]'', [[William Davenant]] in ''[[Gondibert]]'', and [[Thomas Gray]]
*Various [[hymn]]s employ specific forms, such as the ''common meter'', ''long meter'', and ''short meter''.
*In the Malay tradition, [[syair]], [[pantun]] and [[pantoum]] are arranged in quatrains.