Ballads

Let me know which Ballads you like and make a comment on any recent songs you think fit into the ballad category -

//Ballads// have strong associations with childhood: much children's poetry comes in ballad form, and English poets traditionally associated ballads with their national childhood as well. Ballads emphasize strong rhythms, repetition of key phrases, and rhymes; if you hear a traditional ballad, you will know that you are hearing a poem. Ballads are meant to be song-like and to remind readers of oral poetry--of parents singing to children, for instance, or of ancient poets reciting their verse to a live audience.

Does this make you think of the English Countryside the Highwayman may have been on?



Red Coats -