What are three reasons that make Highwayman a ballad?
lol… The highwayman is defined as a ‘narrative poem’, a genre which includes epics, ballads, and idylls. Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. The poems may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. It is usually nondramatic, with objective verse and regular rhyme scheme and meter. A ballad is a poem usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song. Any myth form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form. It usually has foreshortened, alternating four-stress lines (“ballad meter”) and simple repeating rhymes, often with a refrain. Literary ballads are those composed and written formally. The form, with its connotations of the simple authenticity of local folklore, became popular with the rise of Romanticism in the late 18th century.
