Poetry: Ballad Poetry

Contributed by:
Ivan
In this lesson, students will learn how to recognize the features of limerick poetry. A ballad is a type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music.
1. BALLAD
A POEM OR SONG NARRATING
A STORY IN SHORT STANZAS
.
2. BALLAD
A typical ballad
consists of stanzas
that contain a
quatrain or four
poetical lines.
3. BALLAD
The meter or rhythm of
each line is usually
iambic (one unstressed
syllable followed by a
stressed syllable) with
eight or six syllables in a
4. BALLAD
Like any poem, some
ballads follow this form
and some don't, but
almost all ballads are
narrative, which means
5. RHYME
A word agreeing with
another in sound in the
poem
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
6. END RHYME
The rhyming of the
final syllables of a
'In Flanders fields the poppies blow
line.
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.'
7. RHYME SCHEME
The pattern of end rhymes
in stanzas.
Bid me to weep, and I will
weep,(A)
While I have eyes to see;
(B)
And having none, yet I will
8. DRAMATIC IRONY
When the audience or
reader knows something
the characters do not.
9. ALLITERATION
The repetition of the beginning
sounds of words
But a better butter makes a batter better.