A-Z: General definitions
- Baal
- Babel
- Babylon
- Bacchae
- Bacchanalian
- Bacchantes
- Bacchus
- Back projection
- backslide
- Bakelite
- Balaam
- Baldwin
- Ballad
- Ballad metre
- Banns
- Banquet
- Baptise
- Baptism
- Baptism of Fire
- Baptist Church
- Baptistery
- Bar mitzvah
- Barabbas
- Bard
- Barnabas
- Baroque
- Barren
- Bartimeus
- Basilica
- Bastille
- Bathetic
- Bathos
- Bathsheba
- Battle of the Boyne
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Bawd
- Bayonet
- Beadle
- Beadsman
- Beast
- Beatific Vision
- Beatified
- Beatitudes
- Beatles
- Bede
- Bedlam
- Beelzebub
- Behemoth
- Belial
A-Z: General definitions: Ballad metre
Definition
The traditional metre of a ballad with alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
Traditional poem or song, usually consisting of quatrains with abcb rhyme and iambic tetrameters.
A line containing four metrical feet each consisting of one stressed and one unstressed syllable.
A line of verse of three feet or stresses.
