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In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. This form consists of alternating four- and three-stress lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (in an a/b/c/b pattern). Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'' alternating eight and six syllable lines. :All in a hot and copper sky! :The bloody Sun, at noon, :Right up above the mast did stand, :No bigger than the Moon. :::Coleridge, ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'' lines 111 – 114 The longer first and third lines are rarely rhymed, although at times poets may use internal rhyme in these lines. :In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, :It perched for vespers nine; :Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, :While the creatures crooned :::Coleridge, ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'' lines 75 – 78 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballad stanza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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