Quatrain vs Sonnet - What's the difference?
quatrain | sonnet |
a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines
A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
As nouns the difference between quatrain and sonnet
is that quatrain is a poem in four lines while sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.As a verb sonnet is
to compose sonnets.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.