A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music. The word ‘ballad’ comes from the Latin ‘ballare’ which means to dance – it’s also where the word ‘ballet’ comes from.

Ballad is a form of narrative poetry, which was sung. The Ballads usually tells a dramatic story, as a series of rapid flashes; they consisted of a mixture of dialogue and narration. Ballads were ...

Ballad in first were Communal ring-dance. Authorship was attributed or to individual poem or community. MedBall talks about a series of rapid flashes and dramatic story not as a continuous ...