quatrain

quatrain(
kwa
-
treyn
)
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
noun
a. el cuarteto
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
The quatrain has an AABB rhyme scheme.El cuarteto tiene una esquema de la rima de AABB.
b. la estrofa de cuatro versos
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(F)
It's a 20-page poem in quatrains.Es un poema de 20 páginas en estrofas de cuatro versos.
c. la cuarteta
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(F)
Quatrains in Spanish tend to have lines with eight syllables.Las cuartetas en español suelen tener versos de ocho sílabas.
d. la redondilla
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(F)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote a well-known series of quatrains.Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz escribió una conocida serie de redondillas.
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