Ballad is a form of narrative poetry ... but to a lay one. One of the best examples of a narrative poem in the Middle Ages is ‘Canterbury Tales’, written by Geoffrey Chaucer; this poem ...

Medieval Ballad were too popular in English world ... the scope was to entertain and to instruct. Narrative poem include example (parables and fables ) where real events coexisted with fantastic ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music ... If the first syllable is stressed, as for example in ‘ha-ppy’, but not the second, it is called a trochee.