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Aug 9, 2024 · Ballad, short narrative folk song, whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media have little affected the habit of folk singing. The term ballad is also applied to any narrative.
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Aug 9, 2024 · Technique and form. Ballads are normally composed in two kinds of stanzas; the first consists of a couplet of lines each with four stressed syllables, and with an interwoven refrain: But it would have made your heart right sair, With a hey ho and a lillie gay. To see the bridegroom rive his haire.
Aug 9, 2024 · The ministrels manipulate the story with coarse explicitness, begging for attention in a servile way, predicting future events in the story and promising that it will be interesting and instructive, shifting scenes obtrusively, reflecting on the characters’ motives with partisan prejudice.
Aug 6, 2024 · Causley writes quatrains, ballads, strong narratives about the sea and plain people. Occasionally ironic and subtle, his poetry is usually perfectly open and comprehensible.
Aug 9, 2024 · Relying on hymn and ballad forms (as Dickinson does best), this poem almost mimics the rhythm of waves crashing along the shore and creates a hymn-like cadence, elevating the mundane to feel nearly spiritual. The poem itself compares the sea to her house—mainly by placing mermaids in the basement.
2 days ago · Much narrative poetry—such as Scottish and English ballads, and Baltic and Slavic heroic poems—is performance poetry with roots in a preliterate oral tradition. It has been speculated that some features that distinguish poetry from prose, such as meter, alliteration and kennings , once served as memory aids for bards who recited traditional ...
6 days ago · Often synonymous with love songs, ballads typically combine stories with music—making for some of the most poetic songs to date. From traditional ballads of old to today's hottest pop ballads, these narratives set to music span a broad range of genres.
