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Early ballads often told stories of tragic love, domestic conflicts, wars, shipwrecks, crimes, and outlaws. Later ballads also focused on historical events and romantic heroes. Ballads were simple narrative poems, usually of folk origin, that were sentimental in nature and composed in short stanzas. They emerged in the late Middle Ages as English became an accepted literary language. Ballads characteristically had a strong, simple musical beat and used repetition, refrains, incremental repetition, and quest
- Author
- Nur Athirah Shafie
- Language
- EN