Analysing poetry. Quatrains?

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I am analysing a poem where the stanzas each have 8 lines, and lines 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 rhyme respectively. Could the first four lines be considered a quatrain, or is a quatrain always a stand alone verse of four lines? Would these be couplets just? Help!
 
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).
 
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