 Ballade: Three stanzas of " ababbcbC " followed by a refrain of " bcbC ".
<meaning-changed>  Ballade: Three stanzas of " ababbcbC " followed by a refrain of " bcbC ".
 Ballade: Three stanzas of " ababbcbC " and alternates 4-stress and 3-stress iambic lines. This is the meter used in hymns and ballads. Indian poetic meters: Chhand Kannada meter Mandakranta Mātrika Ovi Triveni Sanskrit meter Tamil meter Vedic meter Triṣṭubh: a Vedic meter of 44 syllables, or any hymn composed in this meter Long metre (aka long measure): a poetic metre consisting of quatrains (4-line stanzas) in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme pattern " bcbC ".