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bal′lad stan′za, [Pros.]
  1. Poetrya 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.
  • 1930–35

'ballad stanza' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
common measure

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