ENG 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: To Autumn, Tetrameter, Quatrain
27 Mar 2019
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Two basic types of odes: 1) pindaric, which, as i"ve said, revolves on praise and passion intense feeling, visionary boldness. 2) the horatian ode (based on the model of the. Roman horace) many of these are calm, meditative, and colloquial; these are often homostrophic, which means they use a single repeated stanza form, and they are usually shorter than pindaric odes. Keats"s to autumn is a good example of this. Ballads: a short definition of the popular ballad (also called the folk ballad or traditional ballad) is that it is a song, transmitted orally, which tells a story. Ballads are thus the narrative species of folk songs, which originate, and are communicated orally, among illiterate or only partly literate people. The ballad usually originates with a single anonymous author, but so many other people will perform that ballad, that many ballads exist in many variant forms.
