Edward Ballad - Sara, Viola e Bianca

edward

ballad

Sara Petrosino, Viola Borda, Bianca De Vries

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THE Ballad

• “Edward,Edward” and is a Scottish ballad written by an anonymous.

The main Characters

• Edward
• Edward's mother

The plot

• The main story is based on the mother-son dialogue
• His mother strongly urges him to tell the truth, and he claims to have killed his father
• The ballad ends with the son cursing his mother to hell because she gave him horrible advice.

Major themes in "Edward, Edward"

• Mother - son relationship
• Patricide
• Future concerns

THE LANGUAGE

Made of seven stanzas

Is a dialogue

With stressed and unstressed syllables

In the text we can find many refrains

Formal analysis

Rhyme scheme

Poetic devices

Anaphora

Alliteration

Metaphor

Symbolism

The ballad: modern and ancient english...

archaic expressions and words

“ALAS! and WOE IS HE o!”

“i’ll set my feet in YOUNDER boat”

“and why are so sed YE o!”

“the curse of hell from me SHALL you bear”

“my dear son i tell THEE”

“and i’ll FARE over the sea”

“o, i have killed my red-roan STEED”

“that were SEA fair to see o!”

fun fact

• this ballad inspired Johannes Brahms for his lied.

sitography

1. https://literarydevices.net/

2. https://www.literature-no-trouble.com/

3. Many videos

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