Ballad of the Sheepies
This is my first attempt at writing a ballad. Ballads are narratives that tell a story often using metaphors. Ballads vary in their structure, but I chose to try the traditional iambic meter (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) and wrote four-line stanzas (quatrains), alternating between iambic tetrameter (4 iambs/eight syllables per line) and iambic trimeter (3 iambs/six syllables per line). Maybe I'll try a sonnet next... Maybe 😏 Ballad of the Sheepies In warming air of springtime full, The shepherd took the sheep, Out into hills secure and green, Their guarding he did keep. In pleasant pastures packed with wool, While they in joyful leaps, Naively thought the world serene, The foolish little sheep. In glooming forest fraught with wolves, In trees below they sleep. The guard aware of threat unseen, Where murky shadows creep. In warming air of springtime full, One little sheepie keen, Hills y...