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  2. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.

  3. The 30 best songs of 2024 - AOL

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    Listen to a playlist of the best songs of the year as selected by The Times' August Brown and Mikael Wood. ... The year’s tenderest butt-rock ballad. — M.W. ... Killer bass line, gorgeous ...

  4. Common metre - Wikipedia

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    A modern example of ballad metre is the theme song to Gilligan's Island, infamously making it possible to sing any other ballad to that tune. The first two lines actually contain anapaests in place of iambs. This is an example of a ballad metre which is metrically less strict than common metre.

  5. Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale - Wikipedia

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    The ballad uses the kinds of rhyme, rhythm and metre commonly found in English ballads of the 13th and 14th centuries. It has from six to ten syllables per line, and no strict metrical scheme, but the rhyme scheme is throughout of ABCB quatrains.

  6. Ballad stanza - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad.The ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB.

  7. Slow Train (Flanders and Swann song) - Wikipedia

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    The song features idealised scenes such as milk churns on a railway platform. "On the mainline and the goods siding the grass grows high": the Beeching cuts closed many rural lines, such as the Dunstable Branch Lines serving Dunstable Town. "Slow Train" takes the form of an elegiac list song of railway stations, which has been likened to a ...

  8. The Maid and the Palmer - Wikipedia

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    Earlier, in 1954, the song collector Seamus Ennis recorded singer Thomas Moran of Mohill, Co. Leitrim singing a partial version (6 verses only); in Moran's version (available for listening here) the refrain (lines 2 and 4 of each verse) appears to belong to a previous Child Ballad (number 20, "The Cruel Mother") but the remainder of the text is ...

  9. Silver Dagger (song) - Wikipedia

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    Of interest are early versions of two songs, "Silver Dagger" and "Drowsy Sleeper", that are related thematically and may share a common origin in the older theme of night visit in traditional English songs, [7] [8] but they differ in lines, verse rhythm and outcome in their lyrics. [9]