Here, the most recent glacial activities ceased about 10,000 years ago. At one time glacial ice covered nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin, prompting the late Ray Zillmer to propose an Ice Age Glacier National Forest Park in 1950. An avid hiker, Zillmer visualized a trail, such as the Appalachian Trail, so visitors could explore Wisconsin's glacial landscape.
(December 2009). In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. This form consists of alternating four-and three-stress lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (in an a/b/c/b pattern). Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, alternating eight and six syllable lines.
Roughly half of the poem falls within one of four clusters. There are only 20 lines in the 567-line poem that have no exact metrical companions; quite a small number for a poem that is supposed to be as wildly irregular as Rossettiâs.