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literary ballad

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A ballad written as a conscious literary composition rather than oral folk tradition

Detailed Definition
Literary ballad is a narrative poem that adopts the conventions of the folk ballad—quatrains, ABCB rhyme, incremental repetition—but is composed by a known literary author for artistic rather than oral transmission; exemplified by Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” it blends rustic simplicity with sophisticated technique.
Example
Example in poetry:
literary ballad (A narrative poem, typically with a musical quality, written by a known poet rather than arising from oral tradition); Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"; John Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Additional Notes
literary ballad: A poem written in the style and form of a traditional folk ballad (simple language, direct narrative, four-line stanzas, ABCB rhyme, strong rhythm) but composed by a known, usually highly skilled, poet (e.g., Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).
Also Known As
Ballad of literature Written ballad Artistic ballad Ballad
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