TYPES OF POETRY

BALLAD

By: Kristian and Cole

BALLAD

THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

This poem means that the opposite sides rarely meet, but when they do, they come from far away and the world comes to an end.

RHYTHM

• A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
• Ex. and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presentlyo at God’s great Judgment Seat;
• Meet and seat rhyme

METER

• Unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats that occur several times.

FEET

• Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Only happening once.

Onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Ex. And when he could spy the white of her eye, he made the pistol crack.

Crack is the onomatopoeia