Forms built for spoken or sung delivery and for direct address to a subject or occasion: the narrative folk ballad, the address-form ode, and the mourning-form elegy. Belongs here: a form whose identity rests on its performative or occasional function rather than a fixed rhyme pattern alone. Does not belong here: a fixed-pattern form from the Romance or Middle Eastern traditions covered above, even where it shares a narrative or celebratory subject.
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1. Ballad (Wikipedia)
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Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of England, Ireland and Scotland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century.
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