What type of poem is a ballad?

Answer 1

A Ballad is the most enduring of all poetic forms. Ballads are the main vehicle for stories and songs, go back into the mists of prehistory, before English was even recognizably English:

In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin'
Made every lad cry wellaway,
And her name was Barbara Allen.

Nearly as well known is the tale of Sally Brown, who tricked a serial killer into an unguarded moment, enabling her to push him off a cliff into the sea:

"Lie there, lie there, you false young man,
Lie there, lie there," said she.
"Six little maidens you've drownded here,
Go keep them company!"

As these old examples show, the traditional ballad stanza has four lines, alternating between four iambic beats (ux ux ux ux ), and three beats (ux ux ux) per line. The second and fourth lines rhyme. (In older English, "Allen" was pronounced "Ellen," so the second and fourth lines of the first example would have rhymed for the original singers.) This form, four beats and three, by the way, harks back to the seven-beat line in which the earliest heroic tales like Beowulf (about 750 AD) were composed.

Today ballads are are popular form used by Australian poets and also the poets of the West Indies lean towards this form

Sonnets are usually written with a long line of five beats (ux ux ux ux ux) Iambic Pentameter. They break down into one eight-line stanza, that tells an experience or expresses a thought or feeling, and a six-line stanza, that contrasts with, resolves, or comments on the first part.

The eight-line stanza, called an octave, uses two rhyme words. The first line rhymes with the fourth, fifth, and eighth lines; the second with the third, sixth, and seventh.

Shakespeares favourite form was the Sonnet. Sonnets are generally used to express love or romance. Both are structurally different to each other and by their very structure enhance the ideas or feelings the poet is trying to convey...regards David

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Answer 2

A Ballad is a type of narrative poem that tells a story, often focusing on themes of love, adventure, or folklore. It typically has a simple and rhythmic structure that makes it easy to be set to music.

Answer 3

A ballad, an ode, a sonnet and free verse are all different types of poetry. Each with its own unique wording structure to follow.

Answer 4

A ballad is a shortish narrative poem, with little desciption. Ballads are often deliberately 'naive' in tone.

Answer 5

a ballad poem is about something that's sad.

Answer 6

Well i think its having the same rythm and tune the whole time... Kinda like "Love Story" By Taylor Swift -Hope This Helped Vanessa Kam +Niall Horan

Answer 7

It definitely is a Narrative Poetry.