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Types of Ballads

Ballad Stanzas
Ballad Stanzas

Ballad stanza, a verse stanza common in English ballads that consists of two lines in ballad metre, usually printed as a four-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of abcb, as in The Wife of Usher’s Well, which begins: There lived a wife at Usher’s Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o’er the sea.

Dialogue
Dialogue

However, in general, whether a ballad is a song or a story, it tends to have some sort of musical quality to it. One example of a ballad is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Ballads from History Early Written Ballads. At the beginning, ballads were a major part of the oral tradition.

Repetition
Repetition

A ballad / ˈ b æ l ə d / is a form ... Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, ...

Simple Language
Simple Language

Simple language. Some ballads, especially older traditional ballads, were composed for audiences of non-specialist hearers or (later) readers. Therefore, they feature language that people can understand without specialist training or repeated readings.

Stories
Stories

However, in general, whether a ballad is a song or a story, it tends to have some sort of musical quality to it. One example of a ballad is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Ballads from History Early Written Ballads. At the beginning, ballads were a major part of the oral tradition.

Third-Person Objective Narration
Third-Person Objective Narration

Third-person objective is not the only style that uses an outside narrator. In third-person omniscient, narrators are all-knowing. Much more information is given to the reader. The thoughts and feelings of some or all characters are included. However, though the narrators have this information, they may not reveal everything to the audience.

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