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MEDIEVAL BALLAD - Coggle Diagram
MEDIEVAL BALLAD
CHILD BALLADS
name given to a group of 305 ballads
collected in 5 volumes
Francis J. Child
published between 1882-1898
4 categories
supernatural events
religious subjects
border ballads
love and jealouusy
LORD RANDAL
structures: four-lines stanzas
language: simple, colloquial and direct
themes
revenge
betrayl
love
death
rhythm: allitteration, repetition and refrain
oral composition
simple language
telling a story to "popular chronicles"
composed by unlettered and anonymous authors
for illiterate audiences