Quatrain vs Tetrameter - What's the difference?
quatrain | tetrameter |
a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines
(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
(prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
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)- 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.