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Summary: When writing a ballad, it's best to come up with a catch phrase to build upon. Write a ballad with tips from a writing instructor in this free video on writing tips.

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By Laura Minnigerode
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Contact: www.youngwritersworkshops.com

Laura Minnigerode is a writing instructor and former classroom teacher. Her teaching experience includes public and private schools, as well as writing workshops for adults and...read more

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"Hi, I'm Laura from YoungWritersWorkshops.com and I'm going to talk about how to write a ballad. A ballad is a poem but it's also something that would be suitable to be set to music. A lot of times the way to start writing your ballad might be to come up with a phrase, or a catch phrase that you want to build upon. It doesn't have to be the first line of the ballad but it might be something that's repeated later throughout the ballad. Many ballads rhythm and it's often a four line stanza or quatrain. You may think of words where you can create a four line stanza with a varying rhythm scheme, it could be A, B, A, B or A, B, C, A. Play around with it a little bit and see what you come up with, don't reach to hard for the rhythms but try and find ways that you can build in a little bit of rhythm into your ballad. Something really important to consider in a ballad is the meter. You want to make sure that the phrasing allows you to have lines with the same amount of syllables and that's what makes it feel comfortable. It's a little jarring or upsetting when things don't have the same meter, where they don't quite end on the same syllable, you can kind of feel when the end is supposed to come when you listen to a song or a poem and if that doesn't fall right, it could feel a little bit upsetting and off. Just to sum it up, some of the things that are important about writing a ballad are a phrase that can serve as a course, meter that's consistent and some sort of rhythm scheme and that's how to write a ballad."

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