Alternating Quatrain

Type: structure, rhyme scheme, stanzaic.

Description: Four-line stanzas rhymed abab. They can conform to other rules, such as having lines of iambic pentameter (Sicilian quatrains), but they need not even be metered as long as they rhyme.

Schema: Rhyme: abab

Stanza length: quatrain.

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