Today I want to talk about a form of verse (poetry with structure and usually rhyme) called a ballad stanza. A ballad tells a story in four lines or multiple stanzas of four lines each. Probably ...

So if we do an ABBA structure, they might have a hard time remembering that the last line rhymed with the first. I'm rhyming overwhelmingly, (A) but it still remains to reach the end. (B) ...

Rhyme scheme and stanza length can be clues to a poem's form. Learn how to identify poetic form with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

In stanza 3, the rhyme is solidly masculine in the first two lines and the syntax, while clever ("down they forgot as up they grew"), is perfectly clear.