Since ballads narrate a story, dialogues are incorporated into the verse. Since ballads were originally meant to be set to music, there is a musical quality in a ballad. The typical ballad meter is an alternation between lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. They were generally written in quatrains with a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB. Ballads often have a refrain.
However, there are different variations on rhyme and meter of ballads. Given below is an excerpt from the ballad, The Three Ravens. Try to note some of the above-mentioned characteristics in this ballad. Ballad is a narrative poem that was traditionally set to music. Ailyn Valle at Employee. Show More. Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. Lyrical poems and ballads 1.
The weakest form is the song, especially popular songs that are heard frequently on the radio because most songs do not achieve the level of true poetry, even though they employ some poetic devices. No voices on the winds that blow, No light house in the swiveling snow, No flare, no flame, the way I go -But heel and toe, and heel and toe. Our houses stand apart, and so The time had come I had to go Out from the fire, into the snow -He would have come, but I said No.
Walking Alone by Elma Mitchell Rhyme : a,a,a,a 6. Total views 5, On Slideshare 0. From embeds 0. Number of embeds 2. Downloads In Browning 's My Last Duchess for instance, the Duke shows the picture of his last wife to the emissary from his prospective new wife and reveals his excessive pride in his position and his jealous temperament.
Narrative Poetry. Narrative poetry gives a verbal representation, in verse, of a sequence of connected events, it propels characters through a plot. It is always told by a narrator. Narrative poems might tell of a love story like Tennyson 's Maud , the story of a father and son like Wordsworth 's Michael or the deeds of a hero or heroine like Walter Scott 's Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Sub-categories of narrative poetry:. The mock-epic makes use of epic conventions, like the elevated style and the assumption that the topic is of great importance, to deal with completely insignificant occurrences.
A famous example is Pope 's The Rape of the Lock , which tells the story of a young beauty whose suitor secretly cuts off a lock of her hair. A ballad is a song, originally transmitted orally, which tells a story. It is an important form of folk poetry which was adapted for literary uses from the sixteenth century onwards. The ballad stanza is usually a four-line stanza, alternating tetrameter and trimeter.
Descriptive and Didactic Poetry. Both lyric and narrative poetry can contain lengthy and detailed descriptions descriptive poetry or scenes in direct speech dramatic poetry. The purpose of a didactic poem is primarily to teach something. But it can also be meant as instructive in a general way.
Two of the most popular kinds of poems are the ballad and the sonnet, both of which tell a story and maintain specific rhyming schemes. The ballad can be considered as narrative in nature, backed by a self-contained story, often brief and rich in imagery rather than description. It can speak of romance, comedy, tragedy, and even history. Often set to music, many ballads have made significant contributions to music starting in the 18th century.
Tracing back from early centuries, the interpreters and composers of ballads were song-poets and courtly musicians. They were then popularly known as lyrical ballads.
The sonnet, on the other hand, is much more lyrical in itself. Its early form was described as a poem of fourteen lines, constricted by a rhyme scheme. This property gives it a singsong quality, even when the words are merely read. In terms of form, the ballad is less complex than the sonnet.
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