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Quatrain vs Tetrameter - What's the difference?

quatrain | tetrameter |

As nouns the difference between quatrain and tetrameter

is that quatrain is a poem in four lines while tetrameter is a line in a poem having four metrical feet.

quatrain

English

Noun

(wikipedia quatrain) (en noun)
  • a poem in four lines
  • a stanza of four lines
  • 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.

    See also

    * couplet * tercet * terzain * cinquain * sestet * septet * octave

    tetrameter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tetrametre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
  • (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
  • Derived terms

    * iambic tetrameter

    See also

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