Well, as far as I know, ballad measure is also known as ballad meter or ballad stanza.
But Alan, I can see where you're coming from; you can tweak it that way if you wish, and I do believe it's closer to ballad measure than trimeter. Two big BUTS however.
1. Some of the lines (for me) will just not stretch to 4 beats without sounding downright odd. Line 1 for example, as a 4-stress, could only be "IS there ANybody THERE said the TRAveller" which makes it sound much too jaunty. Similarly with lines 9 ("But" or "to" would have to be stressed) and 21 ("And"???).
2. You cannot have it both ways. If you start attending to secondary stresses the poem moves farther from ballad measure, since some of the lines become pentameters (eg.11: GREY EYES and 17: DARK STAIR) which, to me, makes more sense, tweaks more easily and sounds much better.
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