a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet
a rhyming quatrain in heroic verse. Also called heroic quatrain
the stanza used by Spenser in The Faerie Queene, consisting of eight iambic pentameters and an alexandrine, with the rhyming scheme ababbcbcc