词条 | ballad stanza |
释义 | ballad stanza literature a verse stanza common in English ballads that consists of two lines in ballad metre (common metre), usually printed as a four-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of abcb, as in The Wife of Usher's Well, which begins: There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carlin wife, That her three sons were gane. |
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