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Read the following stanzas

O, my luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O, my luve's like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear
'Till a' the seas gang dry.

Which characteristics indicate that these two stanzas are in ballad form?
A.) The use of nonsense language
B.) The rhyming of the second and fourth lines of each stanza
C.) The subject matter of the poem
D.) The number of words in each stanza

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The answer would be B, the rhyming of the second and fourth lines of each stanza

Answer:

B.) The rhyming of the second and fourth lines of each stanza

Explanation:

The ballad is a poetry form that were popular in Great Britain until the nineteenth century, they were usually written in quatrains, used lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter and had a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB. In the first stanza “June” rhymes with “tune”, just as in the second “I” rhyme with “dry”, showing the popular ABCB rhyme scheme in the ballad.

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