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THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD - Coggle Diagram
THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD
Ballads can vary in
Words
Tune
no moral aim
Story: series of rapid fleshes.
Autorship
Individual poets
Community
Sung at the communal ring dance.
REFRAIN=CHORUS
THEMES
Love
War
Supernatural
Family tragedies
IMPERSONAL
Narrators
Don't speak in the first person.
Don't comment on their reactions
to the content of the story.
Organized in
STANZAS: four lines rhyming ABCB
COUPLETS with an alternating refrain.
REFRAIN: repeated section that divides segments of the story.
Language
simple
CONVENTIONAL VOCABULARY
Common places
DESCRIPTIVE COMBINATIONS
FORMULAIC PHRASES
REPETITION: incremental repetition
Real and supernatural character
fairies
witches
speaking animals and birds
gohsts
classification according to themes
Ballads of LOVE and DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
Ballads of OUTLAWS (Robin Hood)
BORDER ballads
BROADSIDE ballads (1476)
Ballads of MAGIC
LITERARY ballads