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When people hear the word ‘ballad’ today they often think of mushy love songs, but ballads have a much greater history. While most poetry is concerned with evoking emotions and feelings, the ballad is a vehicle for story-telling, and has been with us since medieval times.

The words are set to music to become a song, and follow a simple rhyming pattern and a set meter (or rhythm).

Each verse has four lines, and the poem can have as many verses as necessary to tell the story.

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Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1983: Redgum's promo-video for the Australian number one hit single 'I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)' (March, 1983), taken from the 1983 album 'Caught In The Act'.

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Hey diddle, Diddle,The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

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Language Arts Figurative Language Tutorial

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A teaching tool that we made from our learnings about Personification. Check out... http://room19eps.edublogs.org

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The Bells (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!

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Betty Botter bought some butter,
but, she said, the butter's bitter;
if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter,
and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

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As cold as ice

As cool as a cucumber

My teacher is a dragon

The Mayor glared with eyes of ice

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"Similes and Metaphors" by The Bazillions