📜 Quatrain (ABAB / ABCB)
4-line stanzas: lines 2 and 4 rhyme (ABCB); if 1 and 3 rhyme too it is ABAB
The most common English stanza: 4 lines, lines 2 and 4 must rhyme (ABCB, as in ballads); if lines 1 and 3 rhyme as well it is ABAB (as in the opening of a sonnet). Leave a blank line between stanzas.
Chart (ผัง)
Chart source: Standard quatrain rhyme schemes (ABAB / ABCB).
Real examples
Each example is checked by the same checker you write with: green = rhymes, amber = close, grey = not found.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (first 4 lines, ABAB)
by William Wordsworth (1807)
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Source: Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807 (public domain)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (ABCB)
by Sarah Josepha Hale (1830)
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
Source: Poems for Our Children, 1830 (public domain)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (stanza 1, ABAB)
by Thomas Gray (1751)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Source: Thomas Gray, 1751 (public domain)