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Ballad and Sonnet Poems

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. Ballads (continued). repetition often found in ballads entire stanzas can be repeated like a song's chorus

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Ballad and Sonnet Poems

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  1. Ballad and Sonnet Poems

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Feet 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 More Measurement

  7. 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 • Iambic Pentameter

  8. Shakespearean 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 The Sonnet

  9. 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

  10. Answers • Trochaic Tetrameter • Anapestic Trimeter • Trochaic Tetrameter • Iambic Pentameter • Trochaic Pentameter

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