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“The Songs of our Hearts” Ballads

What is a Ballad? Ballads have strong associations with childhood: much children's poetry comes in ballad form, and English poets traditionally associated ballads with their national childhood as well. Ballads emphasize strong rhythms, repetition of key phrases, and rhymes; if you hear a traditional ballad, you will know that you are hearing a poem. Ballads are meant to be song-like and to remind readers of oral poetry--of parents singing to children, for instance, or of ancient poets reciting their verse to a live audience.

Are there different types of Ballads? Traditional Ballads – Narrative Songs. Stories. Ballads tend to be narrative poems, poems that tell stories, as opposed to lyric poems, which emphasize the emotions of the speaker. Modern Ballad – The modern ballad has been considered a love song or a slow powerful “tear-jerker”

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Format Ballad stanzas. The traditional ballad stanza consists of four lines, rhymed abcb (or sometimes abab--the key is that the second and fourth lines rhyme). The first and third lines have four stresses, while the second and fourth have three. Here is a stanza from "Sir Patrick Spens," a medieval ballad: 'I saw the new moon late yestreen (a) Wi' the auld moon in her arm; (b) And if we gang to sea, master,(c) I fear we'll come to harm.' (b)Sir Patrick Spens

Format Con’t Repetition A ballad often has a refrain, a repeated section that divides segments of the story. Many ballads also employ incremental repetition, in which a phrase recurs with minor differences as the story progresses. Dialogue As you might expect in a narrative genre, ballads often incorporate multiple characters into their stories. Often, since changes of voice were communicated orally, written transcriptions of oral ballads give little or no indication that the speaker has changed.

Overview - A Ballad is a narrative poem - A Ballad Follows a certain rhyme scheme - A Ballad often has repeating phrases and dialogue - Ballads are now considered modern songs that are emotional, when in fact they are centuries old