quatrain in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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It is printed as rhyming heptameters, two of which are equivalent to a ballad stanza; some texts print these in quatrains (groups of four lines).
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Its split into three quatrains and a couplet.
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Because of the repeatedare rhymes in the third quatrain, the poem has six rhymes instead of seven.
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The octave can be broken down into two quatrains; likewise, the sestet is made up of two tercets.
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Not counting his salms and nauhas and quatrains.
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The particular quatrains and tercets are divided by change in rhyme.
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In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c).
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The same pattern persists in the next two quatrains as well, and only changes at the last division, the couplet.
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A quatrain describes the three as wealthy, springs of craftiness and sources of bitter fighting.
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Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people.
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