Day 201: Shakespeare's High School Poetry... On Love

A ballad is a short, narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter, but are usually written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force.

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

I chose the ballad form of poetry this week because I wrote a song. Never have I ever written a song before, but for some reason, I felt that a poem in this instance seemed just not enough.

But since it's my first-ever song - and in some ways is much more personal than every poem I've ever written - it's not something I can share. At least not yet.