i need a BALLAD

  • Miss Chickity
    17 years ago

    i need a ballad. it needs three parts per line, not just one or two likea regular song has. it doesn't matter what its about. but i need one for my friend. thanks!

  • Brittney Follett
    17 years ago

    three parts per line? expand on that..

    A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. Any story form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form. It usually has foreshortened, alternating four stress lines ('ballad meter') and simple repeating rhymes, often with a refrain.

    Typical ballad meter is a first and third line with four stresses (iambic tetrameter) and then a second and fourth line with three stresses(iambic trimeter).
    The rhyme scheme is typically abab or abcb.