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    A ballad is a poem that tells a story through rhyme and is often set to music. Ballads began as oral folk traditions in Europe and were passed down through generations before being printed. They covered topics like love, religion, tragedy and politics. Ballads have a distinctive structure that alternates lines of four and three beats in quatrains with an abab rhyme scheme. Famous balladeers include Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Yeats.

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    A ballad is a poem that tells a story through rhyme and is often set to music. Ballads began as oral folk traditions in Europe and were passed down through generations before being printed. They covered topics like love, religion, tragedy and politics. Ballads have a distinctive structure that alternates lines of four and three beats in quatrains with an abab rhyme scheme. Famous balladeers include Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Yeats.

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    Ballad: Poetic Form

    Definition

    A Ballad is a poem that tells a story, which are often used in songs because of their rhyme. A
    ballad is a poetic story, often a love story.
    A popular narrative song passed down orally.

    Brief History

    composition of ballads began in the European folk tradition, in many cases accompanied by
    musical instruments.
    not originally transcribed, but rather preserved orally for generations, passed along through
    recitation.
    Ballads began to make their way into print in fifteenth-century England.
    During the Renaissance, making and selling ballad broadsides became a popular practice, though
    these songs rarely earned the respect of artists because their authors, called pot poets," often
    dwelled among the lower classes.
    However, the form evolved into a writers sport during the Nineteenth-century.

    Some Balladeers

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge


    William Wordsworth
    Thomas Percy
    W. B. Yeats,

    SUBJECT MATTER of BALLADS

    religious themes,
    love,
    tragedy,
    domestic crimes,
    and sometimes even political propaganda.

    Form and Structure

    THE BALLAD METER

    Strictly, a ballad is a form of poetry that alternates lines of four (iambic tetrameter) and three beats
    (iambic trimester) , often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story.
    daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM / daDUM daDUM daDUM.

    BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

    by Emily Dickinson

    Because I could not stop for death

    He kindly stopped for me

    The carriage held but just Ourselves

    And Immortality.

    We slowly drove He knew no haste

    And I had put away

    My labor and my leisure too,

    For His Civility

    We passed the school, where children strove

    At recess in the ring

    We passed the fields of Gazing Grain

    We passed the setting sun

    Or rather He passed us

    The Dews drew quivering and chill

    For only Gossamer, my Gown

    My Tippet only Tulle

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