ballad metre

British  

noun

1. the metre of a ballad stanza

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Example Sentences

The first, in trochaic ballad metre, telling the story, is one of the poet’s weakest things.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

P.S.—I made bold enough to say in the course of these remarks that Euclid's Elements could hardly be improved by writing them out in ballad metre.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

But these resemblances must not lead us into the mistake of supposing Homer to be a collection of ballads, or that he can be properly translated into ballad metre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

A few stanzas of "The Kinges Quair" are fitted into the poem by shortening the lines two syllables each, to accommodate them to the ballad metre.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Latin septenarius, 259; relation to ballad metre, 264.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald