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Ballad Stanza: Quatrain rhyming abcb and alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.

Spenserian Stanza: The unit of edmund spenser's faerie queene, consisting of eight iambic-pentameter lines and a final alexandrine, and having the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc, or two interlaced quatrains overlappin . . . View Full Definition

In Memoriam Stanza: Quatrain with the rhyme scheme abba (sometimes termed an envelope), written in iambic tetrameter, and named after alfred lord tennyson's poem of the same name.

Stanza : A group of verses separated from other such groups in a poem and often sharing a common rhyme scheme.

Stanza(s): Another term for Inning(s).

Elegiac Stanza: A quatrain with the rhyme scheme abab written in iambic pentameter. See also distich.

Broadside Ballads: Poems printed on one side of a single sheet during the renaissance period.

Ballad Measure: Traditionally, ballad measure consists of a four-line stanza or a quatrain containing alternating four-stress and three-stress lines with an ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme. Works written in balla . . . View Full Definition

Ballad Opera: English comic opera, usually featuring spoken dialogue alternating with songs set to popular tunes: also called dialogue opera.

Ballade: Poem with three seven-, eight-, or ten-line stanzas and refrain. Respectively, these have the rhyme schemes and envoys ababbcc bcbc (cf. Chaucer's 'ballade of good counsel'), ababbcbc bcbc ( . . . View Full Definition