Verse which, rather than on the syllabic count or accent, is based on time, or a systematic succession of long and short syllables. The unit of measure in quantitive verse is the mora. See metre.
A fourteen line poem, or sonnet.
A four line stanza, strict in tetrameter, varied often by substitution, and rhymed abab. See example.
|Quintet or Quintain|
A five line stanza.