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Title: Ballads

What is the difference?


•their
•there
•they’re
Using the verse below, define their, they’re and
there and provide an example from the verse.

There were two crooks, called Lefty and Ned,


Who had to steal for their daily bread.
But now their bodies are underground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Why do we watch the news?

Has the news always been


communicated through TV and
newspapers?

How were stories and the news communicated:


50 years ago?
100 years ago?
200 years ago?
The Oral Tradition
• Many years ago, before people had TV, computers,
films, cars and CD players, they entertained
themselves by singing and telling stories.
• Most people couldn’t read so people memorised the
songs and stories, and there are often lots of different
versions of the same stories and songs.
• In times when people were illiterate, ballads could
help spread news and inform people of what was
going on.
• A BALLAD is a poetic form that tells a story. Usually,
they are in four line verse form and they rhyme.
A Ballad is a kind of poem…
1. It is a NARRATIVE poem. This means it tells a
story.
2. It is designed to be spoken out loud or sung
3. It has short verses that rhyme
4. Very often there is one line that is repeated.
This is called a REFRAIN.
5. It usually ends unhappily.
6. It is often about love, death, war or disaster.
Match up the term with the correct definition.

Rhythm saying something is what it cannot be: She was a star.

Chorus more than two words beginning with the same letter in the same
sentence.
Stanza when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn't
human

Metaphor a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words

Alliteration when a sentence continues on to the next line in the poem without
any punctuation.
Personification a grouped set of lines within a poem

Enjambment a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Rhyme a part of a song which is repeated after each verse.


RHYTHM
Rhythm is the pattern of beats in a line of poetry.

• Depending on how sounds are arranged, the


rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or
smooth
• Poets use rhythm to create pleasurable sound
patterns and to reinforce meanings
Which of these is a rhyming couplet?
Why?

1. The Dearne School is really cool


The year seven are simply heaven.

2. The Dearne at lunch is crazy and loud


But the sun is out and there isn’t a
cloud.
TRUE or FALSE
• Ballads often end tragically
• A ballad has 14 lines
• Ballads are a traditional form of poetry, originally passed on by
word of mouth
• Ballads have a regular rhyme scheme
• Ballads do not have any sense of rhythm
• Ballads usually are structured in quatrains, (4 line stanzas)
• Ballads tend to be about war
• Ballads have a strict rhyme scheme
• A ballad usually contains a moral or message
• Ballads are always about love
Below are the first and last stanza of the ballad The
Sad Story of Lefty and Ned
There were two crooks, called Lefty and Ned,
Who had to steal for their daily bread.
But now their bodies are underground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.

And now the moral, Crime Never Pays,
You’d best take note of this worthy phrase,
But now their bodies are underground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
1) What do the first and last verses tell us about the two characters, Lefty
and Ned?
2) There is a refrain in the ballad. What is it? Where does it occur?
3) What is the rhyming pattern in the ballad?
4) How would you describe the rhythm in the ballad? Think about the
amount of syllables per line.
Remind yourself of the opening stanza:

There were two crooks, called Lefty and Ned


Who had to steal for their daily bread.
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Add the missing words to form rhyming couplets.
air bank bank case fray gelignite hatch light match place rank rank
scare through too way

One day they planned to rob the … , And then they had a terrible … ,
The other side of the taxi- ... . When the burglar alarm rent the ... .
But now their bodies are under ground, But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found. Left there to rot until they’re found.
And then they tunnelled into the … ,
The other side of the taxi- ... . Back to the tunnel they made their … ,
But now their bodies are under ground, Just as the police joined in the ... ,
Left there to rot until they’re found. But now their bodies are under ground,
I think it was Monday they got … , Left there to rot until they’re found.
With all their tools and gelignite ... ,
Ned dropped the torch as he shut the… ,
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found. Because of the dark, he struck a ... .
But now their bodies are under ground,
They put the gelignite in its … ,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
With a mattress on top, just in ... .
But now their bodies are under ground, But he’d forgotten the … ,
Left there to rot until they’re found. And right on to it he dropped the ... .
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Check your work
There were two crooks, called Lefty and Ned And then they had a terrible scare,
Who had to steal for their daily bread. When the burglar alarm rent the air.
But now their bodies are under ground, But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Left there to rot until they’re found.
One day they planned to rob the bank,
The other side of the taxi-rank. Back to the tunnel they made their way,
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Just as the police joined in the fray,
But now their bodies are under ground,
And then they tunnelled into the bank,
The other side of the taxi-rank. Left there to rot until they’re found.
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found. Ned dropped the torch as he shut the hatch, … ,
I think it was Monday they got through, Because of the dark, he struck a match.
With all their tools and gelignite too. But now their bodies are under ground,
But now their bodies are under ground, Left there to rot until they’re found.
Left there to rot until they’re found.
They put the gelignite in its place, But he’d forgotten the gelignite,
With a mattress on top, just in case. And right on to it he dropped the light.
But now their bodies are under ground, But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Left there to rot until they’re found.
We have lost one stanza of the ballad!
Luckily we know what happened - the tunnel caved in!
We also know the rhyming pair: ‘sin’ and ‘in’

Write the next stanza


One day they planned to rob the … , And then they had a terrible … ,
The other side of the taxi- ... . When the burglar alarm rent the ... .
But now their bodies are under ground, But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found. Left there to rot until they’re found.
And then they tunnelled into the … ,
The other side of the taxi- ... . Back to the tunnel they made their … ,
But now their bodies are under ground, Just as the police joined in the ... ,
Left there to rot until they’re found. But now their bodies are under ground,
I think it was Monday they got … , Left there to rot until they’re found.
With all their tools and gelignite ... ,
Ned dropped the torch as he shut the… ,
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found. Because of the dark, he struck a ... .
But now their bodies are under ground,
They put the gelignite in its … ,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
With a mattress on top, just in ... .
But now their bodies are under ground, But he’d forgotten the … ,
Left there to rot until they’re found. And right on to it he dropped the ... .
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
Check against the original …

So now they’re dead, the tunnel’s caved in,


This is the punishment for their sin.
But now their bodies are under ground,
Left there to rot until they’re found.
And the ending ...

And now the moral, Crime Never Pays,


You’d best take note of this worth phrase.
But now their bodies are under ground
Left there to rot until they’re found.
The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned
What happens in the ballad?
Who are the main characters?
What sort of narrative is it?
Is there a message in the ballad?
What is the writer trying to teach us?

Are certain words, phrases or lines repeated?


Is there a pattern to these repetitions?

Try to describe the pace of the ballad.


Does the pace change at different points in the story? Why?
What is the mood of the ballad?

Is there a pattern to the rhyming words?

Is the poem written in one long piece or is it broken up into verses?


How many lines in each verse?
What skills have used today?

What knowledge have you learnt today?

What previous knowledge have you used to help you


today?

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