Quatrain vs Villanelle - What's the difference?
quatrain | villanelle |
a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines
(poetry) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
As nouns the difference between quatrain and villanelle
is that quatrain is a poem in four lines while villanelle is (poetry) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.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.
