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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A quatrain in iambic tetrameter, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and often in the first and third.

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  • noun A quatrain of an iambic pentameter having rhyme in the second and fourth lines

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