41. The ballad has an AABB rhyme scheme, with thirty quatrains composing the ballad. 42. But as a hitter, well, he may identify with another quatrain from Runyon: 43. Joyce's poem is not written in free verse, but in rhyming quatrains . 44. This marks the beginnings of the English sonnet with 3 quatrains and a closing couplet. 45. In the middle quatrain of " To My Dear and Loving Husband " Bradstreet states: 46. Chastushka, a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in limericks. 47. As an eminent poet, she was composer of quatrains ( ruba'is ). 48. The most complete collection of her quatrains are founded in the Nozhat al-Majales. 49. It is in this final quatrain and the concluding couplet we see one final change. 50. The third quatrain sets up the decision to be made about this'battle '.