1. Ballad and Sonnet Poems

2. Ballad Characteristics
Ballads tell of an event. They were often used to spread the news, provide entertainment, or create a "bigger than real life" story.

3. repetition often found in ballads
Ballads (continued)
repetition often found in ballads
entire stanzas can be repeated like a song's chorus
lines can be repeated but each time a certain word is changed
a question and answer format can be built into a ballad: one stanza asks a questions and the next stanza answers the question

4. Beautiful Ballads… Often have verses of four lines
Usually have a rhyming pattern
abac
aabb
acbc
Ballads contain a lot of dialogue
Two characters in the ballad can speak to each other on alternating lines

5. Basic Sonnet Form Lyric poem of 14 Lines Iambic Pentameter (Meter)
Iamb= unstressed + stressed
Trochee= stressed + unstressed
Spondee= stressed +stressed
Anapest= unstressed+unstressed+unstressed
Dactyl= stressed+unstressed+unstressed

6. More Measurement Monometer= one foot Dimeter= two feet
Trimeter= three feet
Tetrameter= four feet
Feet
Pentameter= five feet
Hexameter= six feet
Heptameter= seven ft
Octameter= eight feet

7. Measure Examples Tyger Tyger Burning Bright
In the forests of the night
Trochaic Tetrameter
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Iambic Pentameter
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

8. The Sonnet Shakespearean Petrarchan
Stanzas separated into three quatrains and a couplet
Quatrains reveal a situation and a quick turn comes at line 13
Typical Rhyme Scheme
abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan
Stanzas separated into an octave and a sestet
Octave reveals a situation/problem and sestet is the resolution
Typical Rhyme Scheme
abbaabba
cdecde, cdccdc, or cdedce

9. Meter Wars Mary had a little lamb
And the sound of a voice that is still
Tell me not in mournful numbers
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
She has combed and brushed her night dark hair

10. Answers Trochaic Tetrameter Anapestic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter
Trochaic Pentameter