Poetry can be divided into three types : narrative , dramatic and lyrical . In narrative poetry , other sub -genres of poetry. One of them happens to be known as the ballad .
A ballad poems is a form of poetry and often put to poetry. Like all narrative poems , a ballad contains a frame. Before the 19th century , mainly ballad poems were written and performed only in Britain from the late medieval period . During the 19th century , the poetic form spread throughout Europe and eventually made its way to North America, Australia and North Africa . During the latter part of the 19th century , the form took on new meaning as a slow love song eventually made its way to any long song , especially rock or pop.
The first ballad can be found in the thirteenth century manuscript , entitled "Judas" . However, the issue may actually come from Scandinavian and Germanic tales .
Many ballads Northern and Western Europe were written in quatrains ( four-line stanzas ) iambic lines ( one syllable then unrestricted underlined) tetrameter ( eight syllables ) and iambic trimeter ( six syllables ), known alternately as ballad poems meter . In general, only the second and fourth lines of each rhyming quartet might suggest that the original ballads were written in rhymed couplets with endings . The first use of the ballad poems is told by bards and minstrels wandering around the late medieval Europe.
However, the Spanish ballads are very different in the structure of the European ballad poems. Spanish romances , also known as romances are octosyllabic and use consonance rather than rhyme. Version in other languages and countries may differ significantly from the shape of the ballad of Western Europe.