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ballad stanza
a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each -
poulter's measure
a metrical pattern using couplets having the first line in iambic hexameter, or 12 syllables, and the second in iambic heptameter, or 14 syllables. -
blank verse
Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables. -
choliambus
a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot. -
common measure
the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b -
elegiac stanza
a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming