What are the features of a ballad?

Ballads are often 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Another common form is ABAB or ABCB repeated, in alternating eight and six syllable lines. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides.

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incremental repetition is common

2) transitions are abrupt as well as the opening

3) begins at a point where the action is already directed toward the catastrophe

4) mysterious (alot of unanswered questions)

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