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Which metrical and rhyme pattern is canonical for the traditional English ballad stanza?
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- 1Dactylic hexameter with a recurring refrain, rhyming ABAB
- 2Iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter, rhyming ABCB✓
- 3Trochaic tetrameter with internal rhyme, rhyming AABB
- 4Iambic pentameter couplets, rhyming AA BB
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Iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter, rhyming ABCB
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