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Ballad
Ballad A ballad is a type of narrative poem or song that tells a story, often of a romantic, sentimental or adventurous nature. The purpose of ballads is to tell a tale in a memorable fashion. Who is not familiar with the charming altruistic Robin Hood? If songs from the 14th century hadn't preserved the story of him in a ballad form, one may not have known about him. Lithe and listen, gentleman, That be of freeborn blood; I shall you tell of a good yeoman, His name was Robin Hood. (A Gest of Robyn Hode, ed. Francis James Child). Although the term was made popular by British and Irish bards, it really comes from the mediaeval French Chanson balladée , which means "dance songs." It is easy to hear the similarities between the rhythm and structure of this style and contemporary music. The structure of a ballad is in any length, usually written in quatrains. The meter is traditional, written in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter ...
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