The quatrain is poetry in stanzas of four lines. 

The quatrain is the most popular type of traditional poetry. 

Excerpt from  Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he
sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in
thought.

And, as in uffish thought he
stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of
flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey
wood,
And burbled as it
came!

One, two! One,
two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-
snack!
He left it
dead, and with its head
He went galumphing
back.

Fire and Ice
Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great and would suffice.

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village
though;
He will not see me stopping
here
To watch his woods fill up with
snow.

My little horse must think it
queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near
Between the woods and frozen
lake
The darkest evening of the
year.

He gives his harness bells a
shake
To ask if there is some
mistake.
The only other sound's the
sweep
Of easy wind and downy
flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and
deep.
But I have promises to
keep,
And miles to go before I
sleep,
And miles to go before I
sleep.

When You are Old
William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this
book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft
look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows
deep;

How many loved your moments of glad
grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or
true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in
you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing
face;

And bending down beside the glowing
bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love
fled
And paced upon the mountains
overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of
stars.

The Tyger
William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

This is my Father's World
Maltbie D. Babcock

This is my Father's world
And to my listening
ears
All Nature
sings and `round me rings
The music of the
spheres

(use of internal rhyme in line 3)