Couplet vs. Quatrain

Coupletnoun

(literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.

Coupletnoun

A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

Coupletnoun

(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.

Coupletnoun

Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

Coupletnoun

two items of the same kind

Coupletnoun

a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

Couplet

A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre.

Quatrainnoun

A poem in four lines.

Quatrainnoun

A stanza of four lines.

Quatrainnoun

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Quatrainnoun

a stanza of four lines

Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Persia, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China, and continues into the 21st century, where it is seen in works published in many languages. This form of poetry has been continually popular in Iran since the medieval period, as Ruba'is form an important faction of the vast repertoire of Persian poetry, with famous poets such as Omar Khayyam and Mahsati Ganjavi of Seljuk Persia only writing poetry in this format.