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Writing your own ballad

Learn how to write your very own ballad with this step-by-step guide. Explore the necessary ingredients, choose a news story as inspiration, and employ various poetic techniques. Plan your stanzas, include dialogue, and consider ending with a moral. Start drafting, revise with feedback, and create a final version.

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Writing your own ballad

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  1. Writing your own ballad

  2. Stage One Remind yourself of the ‘ingredients’ needed in writing a ballad: • Tells a tragic story • 4 line stanzas • Rhyme scheme: abcb • Regular, strong rhythm • Longer first and third line (6,5,6,5 or 7,6,7,6 syllables) • May use dialogue and questions • May end with a moral or address the reader

  3. Stage Two • Pick a recent or past news story upon which to base your ballad. • Find as much information as you can about the story. • Brainstorm which details that you might want to include.

  4. Stage Three • Now, think of some techniques that you could use in your ballad - try to use the following in your ballad: simile metaphor personification alliteration onomatopoeia

  5. Stage FourNow plan what you will describe in each stanza of your ballad. • How will you set the scene in your first stanza? • What will you describe in your second stanza? Etc. • Which characters will speak? • What dialogue will you use? • Finally will it have a moral at the end? What will it be?

  6. Now… • Start drafting. • Remember to write in pencil… you will need to change and edit your work as you go. • Remember you should be using a ‘abcb’ rhyme scheme and a regular, strong rhythm • Ask people to read your draft and make suggestions for improvements. • Then write your final version.

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