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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.
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Origin of ballad stanza
First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby ballad stanza
balladize, ballad metre, balladmonger, ballad opera, balladry, ballad stanza, ball ammunition, Ballance, ball and chain, ball-and-claw foot, ball and ring
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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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