Today I want to talk about a form of verse (poetry with structure and usually rhyme) called a ballad stanza. A ballad tells a story in four lines or multiple stanzas of four lines each.

Learn about the history and conventions of ballads with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Food and poetry share a profound connection as both are expressions of the human experience. Let’s see how a ballad poem will describe the dishes from the menu of The GT Road. Peshawari Khumb In ...

Now let’s explore how a ballad poem would describe the dishes from the menu of Cafe Delhi Heights, New Delhi. Panzanella Salad In Tuscan fields, where sun does blaze, ...

In today’s Poem of the Day, Franklin P. Adams’s “A Ballad of Baseball Burdens,” we have another ballade, this one extended with an extra stanza but generally following the rules of a repeated refrain ...

Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp ...

Prepare to be creeped out by this bleak, minimalist adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s poem. The work was first published in 1898, following Wilde’s two year imprisonment for the crimes of sodomy and ...

I stumbled upon an abandoned house at the corner of Broadway and Ferry Avenues while on assignment in Camden Tuesday. As a Philly native, I noticed the words of “Ballad” by poet laureate Sonia Sanchez ...

Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader ...