Definitions for ballad stanza

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bal′lad stan`za(n.)

a four-line stanza, popular in ballads, with the first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth in iambic trimeter, rhyming
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Category: Prosody

Origin of ballad stanza:

1930–35

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