Edgar Allen Poe's ballad breaks with convention by using stanzas of varying lengths and a highly irregular meter. However, the poem does employ the typical ABCB rhyme scheme (though it can be ABCBDB or even ABCBDBEB in longer stanzas) and a refrain: "In this kingdom by the sea." I wa...
The poem uses the ABCB rhyme scheme typically associated with ballads, as well as alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter which, again, is in keeping with the ballad tradition. I have never seen "Volcanoes"— But, when Travellers tell How those old – phlegmatic mountains Usual...
Keats was one of the main poets of the Romantic movement, and idolized the storytelling tradition of ballad, along with the strong emotions therein. We can see the four-line stanzas throughout the poem, as well as the rhyme scheme of ABCB. Keats also uses the three lines...
One of the oldest known English ballad poems, “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” means “The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy. This poem is one of the best examples of ballads because it perfectly follows the ABCB rhyme scheme. Like many of Keats’s poems, this focuses on love and death. In the...
The ballad stanza isa quatrain (a four-line stanza) with a usualrhyme scheme of a-b-x-b. (meaning that only the second and fourth lines rhyme). It is usually written in common meter or measure: alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the two lines of trimeter...
ballad stanza, a versestanzacommon in English ballads that consists of two lines inballad metre, usually printed as a four-line stanza with a rhyme scheme ofabcb,as inThe Wife of Usher’s Well,which begins: There lived a wife at Usher’s Well, ...
Some stanzas use alternating iambic trimeter and iambic tetrameter, and they all follow a rhyme scheme of ABCB, except for the tercets. Who is the speaker in ‘The Ballad of the Landlord?’ The main speaker is unnamed in‘The Ballad of the Landlord.’ He is clearly a Black man, a ...
In terms of structure, ballads are more flexible, typically consisting of quatrains with an ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme and alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Ballades, however, adhere to a more rigid structure, with each stanza repeating the same rhyme scheme and the enti...
a four-line stanza, popular in ballads, with the first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth in iambic trimeter, rhymingabcb. [1930–35] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, ...
“B’ is associates with pain and negative words are attracting the attention of the reader: bitter, bloody, beaten. Moreover, the sound of “B” in sad poem sounds for the reader as beat. The rhyme of the poem is also complicated; so it is one more prove that author tries to ...