Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic

Ballad measure is a four-line stanzaic form usually rhymed abcb and consisting of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines. It can be accentual-syllabic, as iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, or it can be podic with variable numbers of unaccented syllables. Ballads often have a refrain, burden, or chorus.

a4
b3
c4
b3

Where the numbers represent the number of feet in a line.

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• I Lov'd a Blossoming Youth One Time (Scroll Down)
• One Spur and the Arrow

Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Common Measure, Epic, Fourteeners, Narrative, Podic Verse, Quatrains

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