It consists of four lines of iambic feet, lines one and three have four accents, lines two and four have three accents. Lines two and four rhyme.
Explanation:
A ballad stanza is a stanza that has 4 lines, also called quatrain, that is mostly used in folk ballads (hence its name). Generally, it uses a a/b/c/b rhyming pattern while alternating four and three stress lines.
The second option is the answer because a ballad stanza is a four-line stanza in the iambic meter. the first and third lines have four metrical feet and do not rhyme. the second and fourth have three metrical feet and do rhyme
A prepositional phrase is a group of words that lacks either a verb or a subject, and that functions as a unified part of speech. It normally consists of a preposition and a noun or a preposition and a pronoun.
