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    THE BALLAD

    Ballad: Its Nature and Definition


    The Ballad may be defined as a short-story in verse. The word Ballad is
    derived from the word "Ballare" which means to dance". Originally a ballad
    was a song with a strong narrative substance sung to the accompaniment of
    dancing. The minstrel or the bard would sing the main parts, and the dancers
    would sing the refrain or certain lines which were frequently repeated. Often
    it was in the form of a dialogue. Thus the popular ballad had a strong dramatic
    element; the audience were not merely passive listeners, they danced and
    sang along with the bard. There was thus a strong sense of participation and,
    consequently, the entertainment was much greater. As the ballads generally
    narrated some localevent they were easily understood by the audience even
    when they were most allusive. Loves, battles, or heroic exploits, some
    supernatural incident or some local event are the chief themes ofthe ballads.
    Its Two Kinds
    Gradually the dance accompaniment was dropped out and it became
    more and more common for ballads to be recited to an audience sitting still.
    Its metrical form also grew fixed, and the term ballad came to be loosely
    applied toany narrative poem in the ballad metre, i.e., in a quatrain or four
    lined stanza with alternate rhymes the first and third lines being eight
    syllabled, and the second and fourth six-syllabled. In this way it is possible to
    divide ballads into two kinds or categories<The "Popular ballad" or the
    Ballad of growthwith its simplicity, its apparent ease and artlessness, and its
    primitive feeling, and (b) the "literary ballad' the conscious imitation of a
    later date of the original popular ballad.

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