Question

What is the ballad stanza?

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Answer 2

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