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ballads are folk songs with simple tunes repeating like twinkle twinkle little star and!.!.!.!.

My example to you is a broadside ballad!.!.!.
The fourth verse of each set of 4 has the last three words which repeats twice when it is sung!.
since it is a folk song ballad it has many variations, another variation I found was http://www!.chivalry!.com/cantaria/lyrics/!.!.!.
which is more similar to the one my folklore teacher sang us where the ending is like the second version!.

The best ballad of all times and most loved by Anthropologists was the ballad of Little Matty Groves:

A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the
year Lord Arnold's wife to the church did go, the
Gospel for to hear

And when the meeting it was done, she cast her
eyes about And there she spied little Matty
Groves, walking in the crowd

"Come home with me little Matty Groves, come
home with me tonight Come home with me little
Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light!."

"Oh I can't come home and I won't come home,
to sleep with you tonight By the rings on your
fingers I can tell, you are Lord Arnold's
wife!."

"What if I am Lord Arnold's wife, he is not
at home He's away in the far cornfields, he's
bringing the yearlings home!."

A servant who was standing by, hearing what was
said Swore Lord Arnold he would know before the
sun had set

And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his
breast and ran And when he came to the broad mill
stream, he took off his shoes and swam

Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little
sleep And when he woke Lord Donald was standing at
his feet

Saying "How do you like my feather bed, and
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how do you like my sheets And how do you like my
lady gay who lies in your arms asleep!?"

"Oh it's well I like your feather bed, better
I like your sheets Best of all I like your lady
who lies in my arms asleep!."

"Get up, get up," Lord Arnold cried,
"get up as quick as you can For they'll never
say in England that I killed a sleeping man!."

"Oh I can't get up, I won't get up, I
wouldn't get up for my life For you have two long
beaten swords, and I not a pocket knife!."

"It's true I have two beaten swords, and they
cost me deep in my purse But you shall have the
better of them, and I will use the worse

"And you shall strike me the very first blow,
strike it like a man! For I will strike the very
nex blow, I'll kill you if I can!."

So Matty struck the very first blow, and he hurt
Lord Arnold sore Lord Arnold struck the very next
blow, and Matty struck no more

And then Lord Arnold he took his wife, and set her
on his knee Saying "Who do you like the best
of us now, your dead Matty Groves or me!?"

And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard
to speak so free "I had rather a kiss from
dead Matty's lips than you and your finery!."

At that Lord Arnold he did jump up and loudly did
he bawl He struck his wife right through the heart
and pinned her against the wall

"A grave, a grave," Lord Arnold cried,
"to put these lovers in But bury my lady at
the top, for she was of noble kin!."
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Haiku is easy
Why don't you try to write one!?
And see for yourself!.

Tanka is longer
And all about your feelings
The morning after
"Had to go home to my wife
Don't worry about the rent"

I once had to write a limerick
I thought I was going to be sick
I didn't have the time
And couldn't think in rhyme
But a little practice did the trick

As for the rest!.!.!. Diamante is easy!. Just think of two opposites and follow the pattern!. Sonnets are harder and will require some effort!. As far as ballads!.!.!. I don't know that there is a specific form to it!. It's a poem set to music!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Haiku is word art
Distillation of moments
In fluid writing!.

Ballads flow as ballads do
Across the virgin page
And tell the deeds of knights on steeds
And dragons red with rage!.

There once was a limerick writer
Who's verses grew lighter and lighter
Till one windy day
They just blew away
Until they were quite outta sighter!.

I have never written sonnets and unfortunately have never heard of a tanka other than as a means of polluting the oceans!.

Isn't diamante cheap jewelery!?

Hope that what I do know was of help!.
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