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... ballad , unlike the song , is not lyric but narrative . It is not the expression of a poet's mood or emotion , but the story of a bold deed , a dramatic incident , a chase , or a fight . In the lyric the poet tries to ... BALLAD THE BALLAD ·
... ballad , unlike the song , is not lyric but narrative . It is not the expression of a poet's mood or emotion , but the story of a bold deed , a dramatic incident , a chase , or a fight . In the lyric the poet tries to ... BALLAD THE BALLAD ·
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... Ballad . Her contention is that the ballads were , like poems of other types , written by individual au- thors . However the ballads may have been originally com- posed , there is no doubt that they owe their chief stylistic ...
... Ballad . Her contention is that the ballads were , like poems of other types , written by individual au- thors . However the ballads may have been originally com- posed , there is no doubt that they owe their chief stylistic ...
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... BALLAD For further discussion of the Popular Ballad , see George Lyman Kit- tredge's Introduction to Kittredge and Sargent : English and Scottish Popular Ballads , which is the best one - volume collection in its field . See also ...
... BALLAD For further discussion of the Popular Ballad , see George Lyman Kit- tredge's Introduction to Kittredge and Sargent : English and Scottish Popular Ballads , which is the best one - volume collection in its field . See also ...
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote