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What is a ballad?

What is a ballad?. a narrative song with a recurrent refrain narrative poem of popular origin wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn A long song or poem that tells a story A slow romantic pop song en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballad. Famous Ballad Writers. Robert Burns Sir Walter Scott

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What is a ballad?

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  1. What is a ballad? • a narrative song with a recurrent refrain • narrative poem of popular originwordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn • A long song or poem that tells a story • A slow romantic pop songen.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballad

  2. Famous Ballad Writers • Robert Burns • Sir Walter Scott • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Friedrich Schiller • Rudyard Kipling • Oscar Wilde

  3. How are ballads written? Ballads need to: • Have stanzas of 4 lines (also called “quatrains”) • Have iambic rhythm ( / , or downbeat then upbeat) • Make the second and fourth line rhyme • Tell a story

  4. 'Twas in the merry month of MayWhen green buds all were swellin'Sweet William on his death bed layFor the love of Barbara AllenHe sent his servant to the townTo the place where she was dwellin'Saying, "You must come to my master dear,If your name be Barbara Allen"So slowly, slowly she got up,And slowly she drew nigh to him,And the only words to him did say"Young man, I think you're dying"He turned his face unto the wallAnd death was in him wellingGoodbye, goodbye to my friends allBe kind to Barbara AllenWhen he was dead and laid in graveShe heard the death bells knellin'And every stroke to her did say"Hard-hearted Barbara Allen“ "Oh mother, oh mother, go dig my graveMake it both long and narrowSweet William died of love for meAnd I will die of sorrow""Oh father, oh father, go dig my graveMake it both long and narrowSweet William died on yesterdayAnd I will die tomorrow"Barbara Allen was buried in the old church-yardSweet William was buried beside herOut of Sweet William's heart there grew a roseOut of Barbara Allen's, a briarThey grew and grew in the old church-yard'Til they could grow no higherAt the end they formed a true lovers' knotAnd the rose grew 'round the briar

  5. Meter is made up of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. That means one syllable is pronounced stronger, and one syllable is softer. iambic: unstressed anapestic: stressed trochaic: dactylic:

  6. Each set of syllables is one foot, and each line is measured by how many feet are in it. The length of the line of poetry is then labeled according to how many feet are in it. 1: Monometer 5: Pentameter 2: Dimeter 6: Hexameter 3: Trimeter 7: Heptameter 4: Tetrameter 8: Octameter *there is rarely more than 8 feet*

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