ballad metre

noun

1. the metre of a ballad stanza

Example Sentences

Latin septenarius, 259; relation to ballad metre, 264.

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But the First Canto breaks at once into the full licence, not merely of equivalence,—that is to say, of substituting an anap�st or a trochee for an iamb,—but of shifting the base and rhythm of any particular verse, or of set batches of verses, between the three ground-feet, and, further, of occasionally introducing sixes, as in the ballad metre, and even fours— 'Bards long | shall tell How Lord Wal | ter fell,' instead of the usual eights.

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But these resemblances must not lead us into the mistake of supposing Homer to be a collection of ballads, or that he can be properly translated into ballad metre.

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P.S.—I made bold enough to say in the course of these remarks that Euclid's Elements could hardly be improved by writing them out in ballad metre.

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But if these also may be reckoned among his precursors, the dismissal from stage service of the dolorous and drudging metre employed by the earliest school of theatrical rhymesters must be taken to mark a real step in advance; and in that case we possess at least a single example of the rhyming tragedies which had their hour between the last plays written wholly or partially in ballad metre and the first plays written in blank verse. 

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