What Is a Heroic Quatrain?

How do you write a heroic quatrain?

Heroic stanza.

Also known as elegiac stanza, a heroic quatrain can follow an ABAB or an AABB rhyme, the latter also called a double couplet. This quatrain is written in iambic pentameter—five double beats, or ten syllables, with emphasis placed on every second beat.

What is a example of quatrain?

Example #4

May’st hear the merry din. ‘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is an example of the ballad quatrain. He uses the rhyme scheme of ABCB throughout most of the poem.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.

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