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How can you tell if a poem is a ballad?: Media

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Emily Dickinson, c. 1847
American poet Emily Dickinson wrote many lyric poems that used a form similar to...
Amherst College Archives & Special Collections (Public Domain)
Scottish poet Robert Burns
Robert Burns, detail of an oil painting by Alexander Nasmyth; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Audio

“Barbara Allen”
Listen to 10 verses of the folk song “Barbara Allen,” sung by Capt. Pearl R. Nye;...