Dramatic Narrative: Ballads usually tell a story, focusing on one dramatic event, and the story is usually told in plain, everyday language. Casey definitely has these requirements covered. The poem has a cast of characters and a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. And "Casey…" doesn't send you running for the dictionary every other line.Song: Ballads were traditionally stories meant to be sung. The poem's epigraph, "Sung in the Year 1888 [our emphasis]," along with the poem's strong meter and rhyme, indicate a song-i-ness that fulfills this requirement quite nicely.Meter-Line-Stanza: Ballads are traditionally in iambic lines. Iambs are those little, two-syllable units that follow an unstressed-stressed syllable patten. They make that daDUM sound that seems to pop up so often in poetry. You can really hear those iambs right from the poem's very first line:
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day.
Did you hear that daDUM daDUM daDUM pattern? That, is the rhythm of the iambs—seven in all in this line.
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addition to those iambs, ballad lines follow a strict rhyme scheme and
are grouped into four-line stanzas called quatrains. In "Casey at the
Bat," the quatrains follow an AABB rhyme scheme, where each letter
represents that line's end rhyme. Take a look at the end words from
stanza one to see it in action:
day A
play A
same B
game B
[Poem structure - stanzas. In prose, ideas are usually grouped together in paragraphs. In poems, lines are often grouped together into what are called stanzas. Like paragraphs, stanzas are often used to organize ideas.]
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