Alternating Quatrain

Type:		Structure, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic

Description:		Four-line stanzas rhymed abab. They can conform to other rules, such as having lines of iambic pentameter (Sicilian quatrains), but they need not even be metered so long as they rhyme.

Schematic:		Rhyme: abab

Rhythm/Stanza Length:		4

See Also:		Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza, Left-Handed Poems, Quatrains, Romantic stanza, Sicilian Quatrain

Status:		Incomplete