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Soon I will have a contest for FOUR lines Verses and I am HOPING you will SEE and learn the differences in line layout.
Quatrian- Poetry Soup says:
A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. In the basic form, Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a similar number of syllables.
Amber in the Distance [stanza 1] By Catie Lindsey
Violet and gray spoke of harsh rains that day, [a] as clouds hung low in weighted accumulation, [b]* then upon my face sprinkled Heaven's bouquet, [a]
slight at first, then swift in accumulation. [b]*
ABAB = Siliian Quatrain/Iambic Pentameter [Ah, it's called an Alternating Quatrain! If you can do this end rhyme pattern in ten syllables per line you can write a Sicilian Sonnet!]
Below are other possible endline rhyme patterns other sites say are also Quatrains.
AAAA, AABA, ABBA, ABBB, and AAAB [EVEN 4 lines without end rhyme!]
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ABBA = Memoriam stanza,/iambic tetrameter
In Memoriam by Tennyson
Othou, new year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozen bud And flood a fresher throat with song.
Two of these stanzas make up the Italian Octave used in the Italian sonnet.
ABBA = Enveloped Quatrain!/iambic pentameter "Look Before You Leap" By Auden
The worried efforts of the busy heap, [a] The dirt, the imprecision, and the beer [b]
Produce a few smart wisecracks every year; [b]
Laugh if you can, but you will have to leap. [a]
http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/quatrain.html
Okies if you print this page from the site above and keep it on your desk BOY will you be smart! 
LAST but I am sure NOT LEAST [probably the MOST USED] Hymnal Stanza= Iambic
Line 1 tetrameter [8 syllables perline] a Line 2 trimeter [6 syllables per line] b Line 3 tetrameter [8 syllables perline] c Line 4 trimeter [6 syllables per line] b
This is COMMON MEASURE or BALLAD Measure!
Other sources seem to say any grouping of a thought into FOUR lines is a Quatrain?? TEACHERS??? What say you? How about MUST it have meter?? Andie, Joyce, nette, David, Joann...Dee calling all smarty pants
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