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Definition

a song (or poem) that tells a story

her latest album is a collection of love ballads.

ballads = songs that tells a story

...write a ballad of this dream.
Shakespeare, William -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
As the Knight sang the last words of the ballad, he ...
Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass

ballad = a song that tells a story

For as long as I remember, especially when in a good mood, he sang this Mexican ballad that I never could figure out the words to.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

ballad = a song that tells a story

This is a merry ballad;
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale

ballad = a song (or poem) that tells a story

The old ballad which tells of their fight says...
McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
The common folk held him dear, and his memory is still green in ballad and tradition.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
Thanks to this change of position, he was able to listen to the ballad with far less embarrassment than before.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen, as much as an epic has done before.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
"This speech is longer than a marcher ballad, and I don't think he's stopped for breath."
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Old poems, ballads, books he had read many times over, gave greater pleasure than ever.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
Il y a longtemps queje t'aime jamais je ne t'oublierai—it's the old French ballad I used to sing to Alec and Isabelle.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
The next number was a slow ballad in which a woman sang about her lover on death row.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Theresa had always loved her music, but when Linda later walked to the microphone to perform a dreamy ballad, Theresa nonetheless began to cry.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
But, like Jenny in the ballad....
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Ben turns on the radio finally and finds a rock station with ballads we can sing along to.
John Green -- Paper Towns
And then privily he wrote unto her letters and ballads of the most goodliest that were used in those days.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad TURPIN HERO which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips, a duet to your breasts.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

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