Ballad= song or poem that tells a story in short verses and simple words
Like country western songs
Tell of fate of lovers (usually tragic)
Sensational crimes
Dangers of the working life
Historical disasters
First ballads appeared during the 12th century. First were oral tradition.
Folk ballad = narrative poem intended to be sung and without a known author
Characteristics of a ballad
Four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines rhyme
Repeated key phrases or a regularly repeated section, called a refrain
Dialogue
Dialect = form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Common theme of ballads
Death by murder or accident
Tragic and bloody
The Two Corbies
Young knight lies slain, unmourned by his hawk, hound or lady love
Story unfolds through a conversation between two ravens
Lord Randall
Get Up and Bar the Door
Humorous
Husband and wife bicker
Robbers
Barbara Allan
Graeme on his death bead
Sonnet = fourteen-line lyric poem with a single theme
Each line is usually in iambic pentameter - five groups of two syllables
Accent on second syllable
Petrarchan sonnet = octave rhyming abba abba and sestet rhyming cdecde
Spenserian sonnet = rhyme abab bcbc cdcdee
Shakespearean sonnet = rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
3 quatrains (four-line stanzas)
Rhyming couplet - often a dramatic statement that resolves, restates, or redefines the central problem of the sonnet
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
Heroic monarch
Elizabeth I - Speech Before Her Troops
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