ballad metre

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noun

1. the metre of a ballad stanza

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ballad metre

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

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

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)

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

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