ENGL 1080 Lecture : Lecture Jan.25th
31 Jan 2012
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The ballad a product of commoners (illiterate people) a different view from the educated people members of the clergy were educated wrote about religion values such as chivalry, the world of knights, etc. Each ballad created by one individual, but we have no indication of who those writers were there are a number of versions of the same ballad ballad was sung, singers reproduce the ballad on paper. Use of refrains: often at the end contribute to musical effect joining the strands of the narrative transitions from one stanza to another - scene, plot, etc a way to move more gracefully from one stanza to the next. Conforms to specific stanza form: ballad - two line stanzas each line has 4 beats (stresses) Rhyme scheme matches typical ballad quick changes of location every typical of a ballad characters talking - not sure who the character is.
