Kinds of Poetry

(Ballad, Lyrical
1.
Poetry)
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1 Ballad
 Definition

o Ballad etymologically comes from Latin word

“ballare” which means dancing song.
o Ballad is a poem meant for singing, quite impersonal in
material, probably connected in its origins with the
communal dance but submitted to a process of oral
traditions among people who are free from literary
influences and fairly homogeneous in character.
o Ballad are typically composed of four-line stanzas that
follow an ABCB rhyme scheme.
 Characteristic of Ballad
A short story in verse which dwell upon only on one particular
episode of the story.
Universal appeal. Ballad touches upon a specific subject, which
bears universal significance.
Using colloquial language.
Having an abrupt and unexpected opening.
No extra details about surroundings, atmosphere or environment.
The story told through dialogues.
There is a refrain.
The poet tends to use stock phrases so that it may be easier to be
memorized by the readers.
Using of ballad stanza.
Using of supernatural elements.
The themes of most ballads are tragic.
Simplicity.
 Meter in Ballad

 Majority of ballads use iambs as their main foot,

there is no specific meter required for a ballad.
 Ballad has a consistent meter throughout, so it will
be common meter all the way through.
 Ballad in iambic pentameter will likely contain
occasional lines of eleven or more syllables.
 Ballad Rhyme Scheme
 The stanzas of a typical ballad follow
the rhyme scheme “ABCB”.
Example:
O I forbid you, maidens all (A)
That wear gold in your hair (B)
To come or go by Carterhaugh (C)
For young Tam Lin is there (B)
 Ballad has a refrain of six lines that shows
the typical “ABCB” rhyme scheme can be
modified for stanzas with more than four
lines.
Example:
Janet has kilted her green kirtle (A)
A little above her knee (B)
And she has braided her yellow hair (C)
A little above her bree (B)
And she’s away to Carterhaugh (D)
As fast as she can hie (B)
 Kinds of Ballad
Folk or traditional
Literary ballad
ballad

Kind of ballad which was

developed by anonymous Kind of ballad
poets in the ancients times which the
and handed down to our authorship is
generation by word of known. It is more
mouth. It has no written polished and
form and author. lengthy.

Example: Example:
- Nut-Brown Maid La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Chevy Chase by John Keats.
2 Lyrical
Poetry
 Definition

Lyrical Poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses

personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first
person. The term derives from a form of Ancient Greek
literature, the lyric, which was defined by its musical
accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a
lyre.
 Types of Lyrical Poetry

 Corridos ; these have measures of eight syllabless (octosyllabic) and

recited to a martial beat
 Awit (song) ; these have measures of syllables (dodecasyllabic) and
slowly’s sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or banduria
 Psalms ; is a song praising God or the virgin mary and cintaining a
philosophy life
 Ode ; this is a poem of a noble feeling, expresses with dignity with no
definite number of syllables or definite number of lines in stanza
 Types of Lyrical Poetry

 Elegy ; this is a lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief

and melancholy, and whose theme is death
 Shakespearean or spenserian (also called english) ; is a
sonnet divided into three quatrians and a couplet
 Italian or petrarchan ; is a sonnet divided with an emotion
into an octave stanza of 8 line and a sextet-stanza or poem of
6 lines
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