Quatrain vs Pantoum - What's the difference?
quatrain | pantoum |
a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines
A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
As nouns the difference between quatrain and pantoum
is that quatrain is a poem in four lines while pantoum is a poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.quatrain
English
Noun
(wikipedia quatrain) (en noun)- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
- Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
- And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
- The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.