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ballad stanza

noun

Definition of BALLAD STANZA

:  a stanza consisting of four lines with the first and third lines unrhymed iambic tetrameters and the second and fourth lines rhymed iambic trimeters
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First Known Use of BALLAD STANZA

1856

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