Writing Your Own Ballad Songs have been used for many years and are actually poetry put to music. This combination can produce a very pleasant or meaningful experience. Most songs are made up of stanzas . A stanza is a group of lines with a pattern that is repeated throughout the song. Each stanza has the same rhyme pattern.
Songs often use a very simple rhyme pattern like couplets.
A ballad is a song that uses a pattern called a ballad stanza . The stanza has four lines in which the second and fourth lines share the rhyme, but the first and the third lines do not share a rhyme with any line in that stanza. Each line also uses a specific amount of syllables. The first line and the third line use 8 syllables and the second and fourth lines use 6 syllables. The engine makes the thrust to go.