B ALLADS. P OETRY OF THE P EOPLE Word “ballad” is an Old French term meaning “dancing song” Subjects of ballads were predictable and sensational Domestic.

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B ALLADS

P OETRY OF THE P EOPLE Word “ballad” is an Old French term meaning “dancing song” Subjects of ballads were predictable and sensational Domestic tragedy, false love, true love, the absurdity of husband-wife relationships, the supernatural Using a strong beat and repetition, the ballads were a gift of story passed from performer to performer, from generation to generation.gift

Q UICK WRITE Suppose a historian from the future were to analyze today’s popular songs. How would the historian describe the music you and your friends enjoy? What subjects dominate the songs? (Are popular songs sensational the way the ballads are?) What inferences would the historian draw about us and our culture from the analysis of the songs and the stories they tell? Record your thoughts on these pop-music questions.

B ALLAD C ONVENTIONS Ballads come from an oral tradition, so there are no strict rules dictating their form. However, a number of characteristics have come to be associated with ballads, and every ballad reflects at least some of them: Supernatural events Sensational, sordid, or tragic subject matter A refrain A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines An omission of details

O THER B ALLAD C ONVENTIONS incremental repetition, to build up suspense. A phrase or sentence is repeated with a new element added each time, until the climax is reached. a question-and-answer format, in which the facts of a story are gleaned little by little from the answers. Again, this device builds up suspense. conventional phrases, understood by listeners to have meaning beyond their literal ones. “Make my bed soon” in “Lord Randall” is an example. Whenever a character in a ballad asks someone to make his bed, or to make her bed narrow, it means that the speaker is preparing for death.

M OST C RUCIAL B ALLAD C ONVENTION a strong, simple beat, with verse forms that are relatively uncomplicated Literary Ballads rhyme scheme ( abcb ) Iambic meter (unstressed, stressed syllables) a quatrain in which lines of four stresses alternate with lines of three stresses Gilligan’s Island Theme Song

L YRICAL B ALLAD OR N OT ? Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found, Was blind, but now I see.

R EMEMBERING B ALLAD S TRUCTURE A ballad stanza in a poem Has lines as long as these In measuring the lines, we find We get both fours and threes 8- A / BAL / lad / STAN / za / IN / a / POEM 6- Has / LINES / as / LONG / as / THESE 8- In / MEA / sur / ING / the / LINES, / we / FIND 6- We / GET / both / FOURS / and / THREES