10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALLAD METRE»
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The most significant of all quatrains, the stanza of all trades, is the 'ballad stanza'
(or 'ballad metre'). The ballad stanza alternates fbur'stress lines ('tetrameters')
with three'stress lines ('trimeters') rhymed abab or abcb. Critical opinion is divided
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John R. Strachan, Richard G. Terry, 2000
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
ballad metre frequent and contemporaneous reprinting by publishers
unconcerned with authenticity ensures blurring and overlapping – as indeed
occurs with the distinction between ballad and folk-song. All ballads, of whatever
type, must not ...
3
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Its other main features are: BALLAD METRE, plain LANGUAGE, fast-moving
action, dialogue, impersonal NARRATOR, REFRAINS and other forms of
REPETITION. It is a traditional form with origins in ORAL LITERATURE. In the
sixteenth and ...
Scansion — Let the stanza just quoted be read as two lines, and it will be seen
that a couplet of ballad metre is equivalent to a line of service metre. Such,
indeed, was the origin of the ballad metre. Observe also the pause (marked | )
both in ...
Robert Gordon Latham, 1850
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Kittel, Harald; Frank, Armin Paul; Greiner, Norbert; ...
John Goodby's version of Heine's Germany: A Winter's Tale (Goodby 2005), its
use of para-rhyme aside, adapts the ballad metre of the original most notably by
refusing the double rhymes typical of it, partly at least because of their relative ...
6
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Ballads are normally composed in *quatrains with alternating four-stress and
three-stress lines, the second and fourth lines rhyming (see ballad metre); but
some ballads are in *couplet form, and some others have six-line *stanzas.
Appearing ...
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
BALLAD METRE well as the second and fourth. Though ballad metre is basically
iambic, much syllabic irregularity is common - presumably owing to the demands
of music, the early origins of the ballad and the popular audience it mainly ...
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The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry: ...
Ballad metre tends to sound familiar to Western ears, being reminiscent of
children's rhymes and religious song (ballad metre is close to common metre
used in hymns). Although the form is old, its rhythms have become so associated
with ...
9
A New History of English
Metre
Ballad metre The word ballad, as Graves 1957: vii points out, derives from a
metaphor: it means a 'dance' or, if we weaken the metaphor, a 'word-dance', and
in modern popular culture it has come to mean a sentimental song. The Old
French ...
The most significant of all quatrains, the stanza of all trades, is the 'ballad stanza'
(or 'ballad metre'). The ballad stanza alternates four—stress lines ('tetrameters')
with three—stress lines ('trimeters') rhymed abab or abcb. Critical opinion is ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
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IoS classical review: LPO/Jurowski, Royal Festival Hall, London …
Elsewhere, Byron's ballad metre lollops into banal regularity. With the whoop and growl of sprechstimme, narrator Robert Hayward held firm ... «The Independent, Dec 12»
