Music in Poetry: Ballad and Blues Stanzas   May 7, 2018 - June 7, 2018

What makes a poem sound pleasing to the ear? A solid rhythm for one thing—The traditional ballad stanza has four lines called a quatrain. The first and third lines have eight syllables; the second and fourth, the rhyming lines, have six. What we count, however, is the rhythm of the lines themselves, the beat.
Example:
the WIND / doth BLOW / toDAY / my LOVE
a FEW / small DROPS / of RAIN
i've NEV / er HAD / but ONE / true LOVE,
in COLD / grave SHE / was LAIN

For the Love of writing; have fun !
Maria

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Created May 7, 2018