: Re: What is a ballad? I've always wanted to write poetry, and I tried my hand at a ballad today. However, I know very little about the technicalities of poetry, and the explanations of iambic

Ballads, as far as I am concerned usually do the following.

They tell a story -- yours does.
They have the same number of lines in each stanza (there can be verse and chorus with different lengths) -- yours does.
They have lines with the same number of syllables in each pair (first and third can be different in length to second and fourth) -- without counting them all, yours appear to do this.
There is usually a rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme -- except for 'old' and 'own' yours does.

This pretty much fits my definition. I'd call is a ballad.

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