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ballad meter: a standalone construct

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Poetics

the four-line folk stanza of four-beat lines, some with a silent final beat, whose line types are distributed by rules linking phrasing to stanza position.

In poetics, ballad meter refers to the four-line folk stanza of four-beat lines, some with a silent final beat, whose line types are distributed by rules linking phrasing to stanza position. This meaning comes from Hayes (1998) in Language.[1]

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beat3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs line4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs meter2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Hayes, B. P., & MacEachern, M. (1998). Quatrain Form in English Folk Verse. Language, 74(3), 473-507. https://doi.org/10.2307/417791

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