Ballad Definition

The word ballad is of French provenance. It is a type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in ancient France.
Definition
A ballad is a type of poem that is sometimes set to music. Ballads have a long history and are found in many cultures. The ballad actually began as a folk song and continues today in popular music. Many love songs today can be considered ballads.
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
a slow sentimental or romantic song

Categories of Ballad

Following is a broad list of categories of ballad:
• Stall ballad
• Lyrical ballad
• Popular ballad
• Blue ballad
• Bush ballad
• Fusion ballad (pop and rock)
• Modern ballad
EXAMPLES
• Seal - 'Kiss from a Rose' ...
• Meat Loaf - 'I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' ...
• Journey - 'Don't Stop Believin'' ...
• Bonnie Tyler - 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' ...
• Bon Jovi - 'Always' ...
• Prince - 'Purple Rain' ...
• Bryan Adams - 'Everything I Do (I Do it for You)' ...
• Phil Collins - 'Against All Odds'

LYRICS DEFINITION

Definition of Lyric
Lyric is a collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short and non-narrativepoem. A lyric uses a single speaker, who expresses personal emotions or thoughts. Lyrical poems, which are often popular for their musical quality and rhythm, are pleasing to the ear, and are easily put to music.
The term lyric originates from the Greek word “lyre,” which is an instrument used by the Grecians to play when reading a poem
Lyric, a verse or poem that is, or supposedly is, susceptible of being sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument (in ancient times, usually a lyre) or that expresses intense personal emotion in a manner suggestive of a song. Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is sometimes contrasted with narrative poetry and verse drama, which relate events in the form of a story. Elegies, odes, and sonnets are all important kinds of lyric poetry. simple informal wedding dresses

Examples
Edmund Waller
"Go, Lovely Rose" by Edmund Waller is a famed example of a lyrical love poem, in which the poet speaks to the rose he is sending to his love:

• Dramatic Monologue
A dramatic monologue has theatrical quality, which means that the poem portrays a solitary speaker communing with the audience, without any dialogue coming from other characters. Usually, the speaker talks to a specific person in the poem.

• Occasional Poetry
Poets write occasional poetry for specific occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, victories, and dedications, such as John Dryden’s “Annus Mirabilis,” and Edmund Spencer’s “Epithalamion.”

NOTE
“lyric” includes any types of poems with the very general qualities of being personal and emotional in expression, being meditative, and being musical: so sonnets, elegies and metaphysical poems, romantic poems and even ballads and odes may be ‘lyrical’

Definition of Ode

An ode is a form of poetry such as sonnet or elegy. Ode is a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy. You have often read odes in which poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas. Ode is derived from a Greek word aeidein, which means to chant or sing.

ode is any work of art or literature that expresses high praise. This could include a best man’s speech praising the groom, or an emotional eulogy at someone’s funeral.

Types of Ode

Odes are of three types, including (1) Pindar ode, (2) Horatian ode, and (3) irregular ode.

Pindar Ode
This ode was named after an ancient Greek poet, Pindar, who began writing choral poems that were meant to be sung at public events. It contains three triads; strophe, antistrophe, and final stanza as epode, with irregular rhyme patterns and lengths of lines.

Horatian Ode
The name of this ode was taken from the Latin poet, Horace. Unlike heroic odes of Pindar, Horatian ode is informal, meditative and intimate. These odes dwelled upon interesting subject matters that were simple and were pleasing to the senses. Since Horatian odes are informal in tone, they are devoid of any strict rules.

Irregular Ode
This type of ode is without any formal rhyme scheme, and structure such as the Pindaric ode. Hence, the poet has great freedom and flexibility to try any types of concepts and moods. William Wordsworth and John Keats were such poets who extensively wrote irregular odes, taking advantage of this form.

EXAMPLES
Ode to a Nightingale
by Keats, John
Ode to Beauty
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Ode to Winter
by Campbell, Thomas
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