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Nan
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I can honestly say that I'm going to do my share on this one, folks... and I'm not above using something I wrote last week as a springboard...  It'll make life easier, yes? Also, if I can do it, so can you... Revising work you've already started on is perfectly acceptable...  From a previous month.... Ballads are stories in poetic form. This narrative form of poetry has often been used in songs and has a very musical quality about it. The proper form for ballads is iambic heptameter (fourteen syllables - seven sets of unstressed-STRESSED per line), in quatrains of four lines each, with the second and fourth lines rhyming. That's an a-b-c-b format. Remember - above all..... Think THEME... as in anything you write - without a well developed theme, you've got no continuity... Interestingly enough, Ron started a wonderful ballad about the Forum Gang, with very little deviation from the classic format. The Forum Gang naturally responded in kind. I believe there's a small deviation in rhyme scheme, but the overall concept of a ballad is intact. I'll bring copies of these posts into this forum for those of you who might not have read them.... Onward with thy quills, my ballad-bard friends... Waft every crest upon your destined sea |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Actually, after yet another read (and of course I knew this), the Forum Gang saga is written as a ballad. The format is different in that the rhyme scheme is a-a-b-b and the meter is anapestic tetrameter... but the story is a ballad...  ...We can certainly consult our resident Balladeer... |
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