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Old 05-08-2007, 10:00 PM
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This is a lovely challenge!!! Am rather scared of the following though! LOLOLOL

**Ballads, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, which means alternating the lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming.

I will research, and submit....very challenging for me.

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Thanks Ms Jacquii for posting this.......what I underlined is scary! I have to research those terms thoroughly!

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tehehehe - No prob - Don't be scared --- Actually the ballad meter is similar to regular speaking pattern of Americans... I've been reading a WONDERFUL book KIM that I think will shed some light on the poetic "mumbojumbo" LOL - It explains it in great detail in "everyday" language and is just a pleasure to read actually.

Don't laugh - but it's called Poetry For Dummies. I actually bought my copy directly from Shop JPiC --- At anyrate I really do recommend it....



Anyway the way it's explained in Poetry For Dummies is AWESOMELY simple:

An Iamb is the sound DUH-duh where the 1st syllable is stressed - 2nd syllable is not...
As in the word collapse - how it sounds COLlapse or COLLapse...

Trimeter is three feet - Tetrameter is five feet ---- which is to say a string of either 3 of the DUH-duh sounds or 5 of the DUH-duh sounds

Thus iambic trimeter will SOUND like DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh
The tetrameter will sound like DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh lol

But as with any poetry - the artist may even take liberties from being within such a restricted form - but the overall effect of the alternated iambic trimeter and iambic tetrameter is really nice.

Anyway - hope that makes sense
It really is quite simple the way Poetry For Dummies explains it - I just hope to have explained it well

Hope this helps

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You scared????

Haven't you done
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tehehehe - No prob - Don't be scared --- Actually the ballad meter is similar to regular speaking pattern of Americans... I've been reading a WONDERFUL book KIM that I think will shed some light on the poetic "mumbojumbo" LOL - It explains it in great detail in "everyday" language and is just a pleasure to read actually.

Don't laugh - but it's called Poetry For Dummies. I actually bought my copy directly from Shop JPiC --- At anyrate I really do recommend it....

Anyway the way it's explained in Poetry For Dummies is AWESOMELY simple:

An Iamb is the sound DUH-duh where the 1st syllable is stressed - 2nd syllable is not...
As in the word collapse - how it sounds COLlapse or COLLapse...

Trimeter is three feet - Tetrameter is five feet ---- which is to say a string of either 3 of the DUH-duh sounds or 5 of the DUH-duh sounds

Thus iambic trimeter will SOUND like DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh
The tetrameter will sound like DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh lol

Anyway - hope that makes sense
It really is quite simple the way Poetry For Dummies explains it - I just hope to have explained it well

Hope this helps

Jacquii.
Oh Ms Jacquii.... I really appreciate the help in understanding the Ballad meter stuff!!! I WILL get Poetry for Dummies! Sounds fantabulous actually!!!!!!!! The way, you explained is wonderfully clear, and extremely helpful, as I am NO LONGER scared, lolol. Thank you sooo much for posting this as I believe this info will help many as myself.

LOL Kim



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