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The medieval ballad - Coggle Diagram
The medieval ballad
themes:
border ballads:
rivalry
Scottish
English
religious subjects
love and jealousy
outlaws (Robin Hood cycle)
supernatural events: ghosts, witchcrafts, transformations, fairies...)
short narrative poems meant to be sung
mixture of dialogue
popular: made by the people for the people
based on:
romantic figures
real historical events
is:
anonymous
elaborated by oral transmission over the ages
repetition
about:
tragic events
supernatural events
simple metrical pattern:
stanzas of four lines (quatrains)
rhyming ABCB or ABAB
refrain
Geordie
Lord Randal
