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Ballads are essentially stories set to music. It's easier to remember what comes next in a story, when rhymes or rhythms (or both) are used.

Ballads often have larger-than-life characters in them (some of the songs of Robin Hood, for example), or tell a tale of cleverness in evading a gory death (King John and the Abbot of Canterbury).

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