Assertion: ballad's form | /r/HasProperty | a-b-c-b
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text: In each stanza, ballad form typically needs to rhyme only the second lines of the couplets, not the first, in the form A-B-C-B (where A and C need not rhyme), while common metre typically rhymes both the first lines and the second lines, in the pattern A-B-A-B.[citation needed]