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ballad stanza

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ballad stanza
n.
A four-line stanza often used in ballads, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and having four metrical feet in the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth.
ballad stanza
n
(Literature / Poetry) 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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This is the point of the traditional ballad stanza.
The Shine Poems by Doreski, William / African American Review
In the ballad stanza, where the story is generally rendered in four iambic lines (the first and third being tetrameter and others trimeter, with the second and fourth lines rhyming), the song is characteristically condensed, dramatic, and impersonal.
Two writers sharing: Sterling A. Brown, Robert Frost, and "In Dives' ... by Tidwell, John Edgar / African American Review
Stepping up the tempo in "Puttin' on Dog," Brown cleverly alternates stanzas that echo the rhythms and rhyme of a children's game song with ballad stanzas.
Sterling Brown's poetic voice: a living legacy by Gabbin, Joanne V. / African American Review
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