Ballad and Sonnet Poems

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Ballad and Sonnet Poems

Ballad Characteristics Ballads tell of an event. They were often used to spread the news, provide entertainment, or create a "bigger than real life" story.

repetition often found in ballads Ballads (continued) repetition often found in ballads entire stanzas can be repeated like a song's chorus lines can be repeated but each time a certain word is changed a question and answer format can be built into a ballad: one stanza asks a questions and the next stanza answers the question

Beautiful Ballads… Often have verses of four lines Usually have a rhyming pattern abac aabb acbc Ballads contain a lot of dialogue Two characters in the ballad can speak to each other on alternating lines

Basic Sonnet Form Lyric poem of 14 Lines Iambic Pentameter (Meter) Iamb= unstressed + stressed Trochee= stressed + unstressed Spondee= stressed +stressed Anapest= unstressed+unstressed+unstressed Dactyl= stressed+unstressed+unstressed

More Measurement Monometer= one foot Dimeter= two feet Trimeter= three feet Tetrameter= four feet Feet Pentameter= five feet Hexameter= six feet Heptameter= seven ft Octameter= eight feet

Measure Examples Tyger Tyger Burning Bright In the forests of the night Trochaic Tetrameter Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Iambic Pentameter I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

The Sonnet Shakespearean Petrarchan Stanzas separated into three quatrains and a couplet Quatrains reveal a situation and a quick turn comes at line 13 Typical Rhyme Scheme abab cdcd efef gg Petrarchan Stanzas separated into an octave and a sestet Octave reveals a situation/problem and sestet is the resolution Typical Rhyme Scheme abbaabba cdecde, cdccdc, or cdedce

Meter Wars Mary had a little lamb And the sound of a voice that is still Tell me not in mournful numbers Thou art more lovely and more temperate She has combed and brushed her night dark hair

Answers Trochaic Tetrameter Anapestic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter Trochaic Pentameter