Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 6 AIL 0528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ballad
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The idea
The glossary defines a ballad as a narrative poem usually written in quatrains with an A B C B rhyme scheme. Narrative is the key word: a ballad tells a story. The anchor's ballad chapter uses Service's poem about a cremation, published in nineteen seven.
In practice
A quatrain story, rhymed A B C B.
Where people slip
A ballad narrates; an ode does not.
Your place on the trail
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