All 3 Uses of
ballad
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads.†
- They were wretched stuff, in the Grub-street-ballad style; and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them.†
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- In New York and Philad'a the printers were indeed stationers; they sold only paper, etc., almanacs, ballads, and a few common school-books.†
Definition:
a song (or poem) that tells a story or expresses strong feelings -- typically slow in tempo