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Sven's Book of Poetic Forms: #8--Ballade
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Sven's Book of Poetic Forms: #8--Ballade |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA 
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Closing her eyes as she sleeps this night She leaves this world of devastation The moon rises with the fading of daylight Beginning inside her, a feeling of elation Leaving her, feelings of frustration Entering a world where nothing is as it seems A world of her very own creation Looking through the mirror of her dreams In the heavens, the stars shine bright Giving her a needed revelation They shine and flicker in her sight More than meeting her expectation And giving her wonderful aspiration Glistening in the glow of the moon's beams Welcoming it in blissful salutation Looking through the mirror of her dreams Holding her breath, she begins to take flight Her body floating in astral levitation She moves up, up, higher than a kite Paying no attention to the moon's temptation She will fly for the night's duration Riding the flow of life's steams Bringing the seeds of her thoughts to full gestation Looking through the mirror of her dreams Gentle Moon, you bring the waves of exultation With the light that from life teems Enjoying each and every sensation Looking through the mirror of her dreams --------------------------------------------------------------- < !signature--> That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl [This message has been edited by Sven (edited 07-10-2000).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Okay. . . A Ballade (bah-LAHD) is a fairly complicated form with a heavy stress on rhyme. It is French in origin, and they are the ones who have had the most success with it. The word BALLADE comes from an Old French word that means "a dancing-song." The most common shape that a ballade takes is that of three stanzas followed by an "envoi" (a short final stanza) that addresses an important person and sums up the point of the poem. The number of lines in the envoi is always half the number of lines of one of the stanzas. Usually each stanza of the ballade consists of eight lines. The three stanzas always use the same rhymes (although not necessarily the same words) and always follow the same rhyme scheme: ababbcbC. The last line (C) is the same for all three stanzas and it is also always the last line of the envoi, whose scheme is always bcbC. So, the rhyme scheme here is ababbcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC bcbC. There are some variations on the ballade. Sometimes the stanzas have ten lines instead of eight. Then the rhyme scheme is ababbccdcD. The envoi will be 5 lines and the rhyme scheme for it will be ccdcD. Other variations include a twelve-line stanza with a six-line envoi and the double ballade, which has six stanzas of eight or ten or twelve lines but no concluding envoi. Yes, it was a challenge to write this. . .and I may have bent the rules a little but it was fun!! ------------------------------------------------------- < !signature--> That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl [This message has been edited by Sven (edited 07-09-2000).] |
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Lady Web Member
since 2000-04-12
Posts 96Houston, Texas |
Very nice Always the romantic one Love your work. |
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MagnoliaBlue Member
since 2000-05-12
Posts 367 |
Nice work  Glad you had fun,Sven. MagnoliaBlue ~My Skipper Jim I love you! Your Lady June~ |
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Marina Member Elite
since 2000-02-10
Posts 2245Pickering, Ontario |
A beautiful Ballard at that. You really do have a nack for all different kinds of poetry. Wonderful! Marina It is a blessing to have wings for words, and passion in pen Marina Crossley |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Very nice ballade, Sven. Romantic and soft. Love the heavens and moon theme. Great writing. LW Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. --William Wordsworth |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Are you ever going to publish this book of poetic forms? You seem to have mastered them all! I loved this ballade. Elizabeth I'm grabbing my hat and coat I'm leaving the cat a note Quick call me a ferry boat-getting out of town! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Thank you my friends. . . For the record, I have just purchased a wonderful book called "The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms". It's from this book that I'm trying to write a poem for each form presented. . . and that's where the explantions come from. . . it's a great book. . . I recommend it. . . Thank you all again my friends. . . ----------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
all i can say is: you sure have written a beautiful poem for a most difficult poetic form and i do hope that some day i will be as brave and as proficient to try this out a read much enjoyed...i do have a soft spot for rhyming poems and this sure fulfill my needs greatly  |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
WOW very very cool poem Sven-gator your getting way too good at this poetry stuff... pretty soon the word will get out that your a poet  later-poetry-professor-gator jm I think I could need - this in my life If you're gone - baby you need to come home there's a little bit of something me In everything in you MB20 |
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