Day 9 (makeup): Quatern

(a makeup poem for missing Day 9, and in response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt for the day, to write a meta-poem)
 

This is how I write a quatern:

First line, the refrain, then line two,

then three – each eight syllables, mind –

and four, to complete Stanza One.

Stanza Two begins – line one. Yes,

this is how I write a quatern.

I remind myself at line three

that each line has eight syllables.

Hello, Stanza Three already!

The refrain is coming up, here:

This is how I write a quatern.

Four line stanzas go by so fast!

And here is Stanza Four, to close,

the final refrain to round out

four quatrains, eight syllables each –

This is how I wrote a quatern.