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Quatrain

A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines.

For example:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

From William Blake's "The Tyger"

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