Ballad



1.Ballad poems originally were made in the 15th century with a folk origin to tell a story.

2.They often appeared in the form of a popular song.

3.This type of poem usually has a simple rhyme scheme and a regular rhythm.

4.Sometimes they may include some sort of a chorus or a rerain.

5.The rythm of the poem is **iambic** and usually follow the rhyme schemes of a b c b, and a b c b d b.

6.Ballad poetry is not used very often anymore, if ever.

7.This obviously shows that these poems are very old, and for that reason no one has been credited with creating ballad poetry.

Iamb~a metrical foot or two syllables, the first unaccented and the other accdented, as in English verse.**
 * Iambic~of or made up of iambs.
 * Foot~a foot shows rythm or meter; this is where one group of syllables in a verse are accented.**

One famous ballad poem is entitled The Man From Snowy River, written by A.B "Banjo" Patterson.[The 1st video below [the one on the left] is a narrated video of this poem from youtube. Another popular ballad, entitled Dream Song, was written by "Luckman" can also be found below.[This is the 2nd video below also found at youtube.] If you get the chance I would suggest watching part or all of these video clips.

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We were unable to find a lot of the information from youtube so I will just mention that both of the above videos were from youtube.** Honour, Suzanne. "Ballad." __optushome.com__. 2002-2003. 14 Mar 2008 . [The above address is where we recieved most of our information from.]
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"Glitter your way." __Glitteryourway.com__. 2006-2008. 14 Mar 2008 . [This is where we made our glitter graphics.]

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