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A ballad is a type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. English language ballads are typically composed of four-line stanzas that follow an ABCB rhyme scheme. Some additional key details about ballads: The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English.
But over the centuries, more modern poets have used the ballad form to write other kinds of poems, from meditative lyrics to poems responding to contemporary events. These often retain features of the ballad to a greater or lesser extent, however. Below, we introduce and discuss eight of the finest examples of the ballad in poetry. 1.
A ballad is a form of narrative verse that is considered either poetic or musical. As a literary device, a ballad is a narrative poem, typically consisting of a series of four-line stanzas.
Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
A ballade poem is a verse form consisting of three main and one concluding stanza called an envoi, each of which culminates in a repeated last line (referred to as the refrain line).
A typical ballad is a plot-driven song, with one or more characters hurriedly unfurling events leading to a dramatic conclusion. Often, a ballad does not tell the reader what’s happening, but rather shows the reader what’s happening, describing each crucial moment in the trail of events.
A ballad is a kind of verse, sometimes narrative in nature, often set to music and developed from 14th and 15th-century minstrelsy. E.g. The ballad echoed through the ancient halls, telling a tale of love and loss with haunting melodies and lyrics that transported listeners to a bygone era. Related terms: Quatrain, refrain, elegy, folk song.
The Poetry Foundation. Explore Poems: Ballad. Showing 1-20 of 118 poems. Sort by. Filter Results. Verse Forms. Ballad. Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. By Federico García Lorca. 1. La cogida y la muerte A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. Un niño trajo... Love. Heartache & Loss. Nature. Animals. Social Commentaries.
Ballad of the Moon Moon. By Federico García Lorca. Moon came to the forge in her petticoat of nard The boy looks and looks the boy looks at the Moon In... Poem.
Beginning in the Renaissance, poets have adapted the conventions of the folk ballad for their own original compositions. Examples of this “literary” ballad form include John Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” Thomas Hardy’s “During Wind and Rain,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee.”