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Ballad Stanza
[buh-lahd][stan-zuh]
A four-line stanza (quatrain) often used in ballads consisting of altering eight- and six- syllable lines, rime pattern of ABCB.
All in a hot and copper sky!
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 111 – 114
