ballad stanza
noun Prosody.
a four-line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter, often used in ballads.
Nearby words
balla, ballad, ballad metre, ballad of reading gaol, the, ballad opera, ballad stanza, ballade, balladeer, balladic, balladist, balladize
Origin of ballad stanza
First recorded in 1930–35
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British Dictionary definitions for ballad stanza
ballad stanza
noun
a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each
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