quatrain

n.
A stanza or poem of four lines.

[French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor.]

quatrain, a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or (less often) unrhymed. The quatrain is the most commonly used stanza in English and most modern European languages. Most ballads and many hymns are composed in quatrains in which the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb or abab); the ‘heroic quatrain’ of iambic pentameters also rhymes abab. A different rhyme scheme (abba) is used in the In Memoriam stanza and some other forms. The rhyming four‐line groups that make up the first eight or twelve lines of a sonnet are also known as quatrains.

A poem, unit or stanza of four lines of verse, usually with a rhyme scheme of abab or its variant, xbyb. It is the most common stanzaic form.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - firelinjet strofe

Nederlands (Dutch)
kwatrijn

Français (French)
n. - quatrain

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vierzeiler

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (προσωδ.) τετράστιχο

Italiano (Italian)
quartina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - quarteto (m), estrofe de quatro versos (f)

Русский (Russian)
четверостишие

Español (Spanish)
n. - cuarteto, estrofa de cuatro versos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fyrradig strof, kvadernar

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
四行诗

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 四行詩

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 4행시

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 四行詩, 四行連句

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الرباعيه, مقطوعه شعريه رباعيه الابيات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מרובע - שיר בן ארבע שורות, בד"כ עם חרוזים שמפרידה ביניהם שורה‬

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