It's about a young black girl named Mabbie who has a crush on a kid named Willie Boone. She likes to go to school because she can sit next to him, and waits for him at the gates toward the end of the poem and he comes out half and hour after school, wearing an animal fur (lynx), then she's all alone.
I don't really know where the hell he goes or why the lynx thing is important but... *shrugs*
What happens is Willie Boone leaves Mabbie for a light-colored skin girl (That what the lynx is reference to)
it is a book which has a poem in about this girl called mabbie this is what some of the book says " It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates. And Mabbie was all of seven. And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar. And Mabbie thought life was heaven. The grammar school gates were the pearly gates, For Willie Boone went to school. When she sat by him in history class Was only her eyes were cool. It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates Waiting for Willie Boone. Half hour after the closing bell! He would surely be coming soon. Oh, warm is the waiting for joys, my dears! And it cannot be too long. Oh, pity the little poor chocolate lips That carry the bubble of song! Out came the saucily bold Willie Boone. It was woe for our Mabbie now. He wore like a jewel a lemon-hued lynx With sand-waves loving her brow. It was Mabbie alone by the grammar school gates. Yet chocolate companions had she: Mabbie on Mabbie with hush in the heart. Mabbie on Mabbie to be.
The genre of "The Ballad of a Mother's Heart" is poetry or ballad. It is a narrative poem that tells a story and conveys emotions through its verses.
A literary Ballad is a poem that tells a story. A tradition ballad has 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 lines in a verse. A ballad should have a clear story. Ballads usually have tragic endings.
A ballad is a narrative poem or song (one that tells a story).
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A ballad is a narrative. The story may be love and romance (especially in music) but more common themes are heroism and/or folklore.
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A ballad typically consists of three or four-line stanzas with alternating rhyme schemes. The number of stanzas in a ballad can vary, but they often tell a story or convey a message through narrative poetry.
The story of GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony speaks of a bank robbery and the adventures the characters go through to get the diamonds they are looking for.
The ballad form was used by early minstrels to tell a story, often with a heroic theme.
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