I've always known a quatrain to be a stand alone verse of four lines. Quatrains with abab rhyme scheme are known as elegiac stanzas.
An eight line stanza is known as ottava rima (rhyme scheme abababcc, rhyming couplet at the end) or Sicilian Octave (ababababab).
I've always known a quatrain to be a stand alone verse of four lines. Quatrains with abab rhyme scheme are known as elegiac stanzas.
An eight line stanza is known as ottava rima (rhyme scheme abababcc, rhyming couplet at the end) or Sicilian Octave (ababababab).
I've always known a quatrain to be a stand alone verse of four lines. Quatrains with abab rhyme scheme are known as elegiac stanzas.
An eight line stanza is known as ottava rima (rhyme scheme abababcc, rhyming couplet at the end) or Sicilian Octave (ababababab).