Tetrastich

A tetrastich is a four-line stanza or a short poem made up of four lines. It is often used as another name for a quatrain, though some writers use tetrastich more broadly for any poem or stanza with exactly four lines.

Example

Rain taps softly
on the old tin roof tonight;
we listen to it
like a secret being told.

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