The first four lines of a verse that has the rhyme scheme abab.
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A heroic quatrain can be described as a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
The structure was used by William Shakespeare and John Dryden, among others, and was additionally called an elegiac stanza after the production in the mid-eighteenth century of Thomas Gray's ballad "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard."
They were put in a small wooden car, stuffed to the brim with no furniture to sit or sleep on. Their bathroom was a bucket and they were given limited water to share and scraps of food.
