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    This document provides information about ballads, including definitions, characteristics, examples, and types. It defines a ballad as a poetic form that tells a story in verse with a traditional structure of 4-line stanzas in an ABCB rhyme scheme. Ballads are often narrated by a third-person voice and include refrains or choruses. Examples discussed include "Annabel Lee" and Wordsworth's "La Belle Dame sans Merci". The document also distinguishes between traditional folk ballads and literary ballads.

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    This document provides information about ballads, including definitions, characteristics, examples, and types. It defines a ballad as a poetic form that tells a story in verse with a traditional structure of 4-line stanzas in an ABCB rhyme scheme. Ballads are often narrated by a third-person voice and include refrains or choruses. Examples discussed include "Annabel Lee" and Wordsworth's "La Belle Dame sans Merci". The document also distinguishes between traditional folk ballads and literary ballads.

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    This document provides information about ballads, including definitions, characteristics, examples, and types. It defines a ballad as a poetic form that tells a story in verse with a traditional structure of 4-line stanzas in an ABCB rhyme scheme. Ballads are often narrated by a third-person voice and include refrains or choruses. Examples discussed include "Annabel Lee" and Wordsworth's "La Belle Dame sans Merci". The document also distinguishes between traditional folk ballads and literary ballads.

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    Poetry Ballad

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    Chelsy Ann Sales
    This document provides information about ballads, including definitions, characteristics, examples, and types. It defines a ballad as a poetic form that tells a story in verse with a traditional structure of 4-line stanzas in an ABCB rhyme scheme. Ballads are often narrated by a third-person voice and include refrains or choruses. Examples discussed include "Annabel Lee" and Wordsworth's "La Belle Dame sans Merci". The document also distinguishes between traditional folk ballads and literary ballads.

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    Discovering

    Ballad
    Traistan Talan, Estela San Esteban
    By the end of
    our
    presentation...
    We expect 12-Canary
    students to:
    • Define Ballad
    • Be familiar with the
    characteristics of Ballad
    • Be able to identify the
    What comes to
    your
    mind when you
    hear the
    word "ballad"?
    What is a
    A ballad is a type of poem that tells a story
    and was traditionally set to music. English
    Ballad?
    language ballads are typically composed of
    four-line stanzas that follow an ABCB
    rhyme scheme.
    Characteristics of
    Often written in
    Ballad
    third-person
    This poetic form is often told by a third-person narrator who is
    omniscient and separated from the story by space and time.

    Written in Common Meter


    When describing a poem’s meter, it is defined by the number and
    type of metrical foot each line contains. In English, ballads were
    traditionally written in common meter, which alternates between
    iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
    Characteristics of
    Contains a repeated
    Ballad
    component
    Ballads tend to have a repeated component—either a refrain or a
    chorus. However, ballads can have both.

    Rhyhmed
    The typical rhyme scheme for a verse of a ballad is ABCB, wherein
    the second and fourth lines rhyme but the first and third do not.
    Characteristics of
    Ballad
    Example of refrain in
    ballad:
    “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

    For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams


    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
    And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
    Characteristics of
    Ballad
    Example of ABCB rhyme
    scheme:
    The sky had lost all stars but one. (A)
    She tried to ask it why. (B)
    Her vision got her close enough, (C)
    But there was no reply. (B)
    Examples of Ballad
    Lyrical Ballad: "La Belle Dame sans
    a perfect example of the lyrical ballad's departure from the
    Merci:
    form ofAtheBallad"
    traditional ballad. This poem employs the
    ABCB rhyme scheme
    O what can ail thee, knight-at-
    arms, (A)
    Alone and palely loitering? (B)
    The sedge has withered from
    the lake, (C)
    And no birds sing. (B)
    O what can ail thee, knight-at-
    arms, (A)
    So haggard and so woe-
    Examples of Ballad
    Muriel Rukeyser, “The Ballad of
    Activist Muriel Rukeyser wrote this poem about how the
    Orange
    inequalities inand
    urbanGrape”
    areas can seem senseless to the
    point of randomness:
    Most of the windows are boarded up,
    the rats run out of a sack –
    sticking out of the crummy garage
    one shiny long Cadillac;
    at the glass door of the drug-addiction
    center,
    a man who’d like to break your back.
    But here’s a brown woman with a little girl
    dressed in rose
    Types of Ballad
    Traditional or Folk Ballad
    Folk or traditional ballad is a kind of ballad which was developed by
    anonymous poets in the ancient times and handed down to our
    generation by word of mouth. It has no written form.
    Types of Ballad
    Literary Ballad
    Literary ballad is actually an imitation of the traditional ballad. The
    only difference between the two ballads is authorships.

    Moreover, time cannot bring about any change in the text of the
    literary ballad as it is preserved in hard and soft copies. The poet is
    the legal owner of his ballads. Literary ballads are more polished
    and lengthy when compared to traditional ballas.
    References
    Narrative Poem in Literature:
    By SuperSummary
    Definition & Examples
    Ballad in Literature: Definition &
    By SuperSummary
    Examples
    Thank You
    for
    listening!

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