Tag: Ballad

  • Hero

    Your hero will come along
    Your saviour bold and strong
    Your answers all belong
    Within your own theme song

    Your reflection will appear
    Your thoughts become clear
    Your worries will disappear
    You are your hero, my dear

    Day Six: Hero(ine), Ballad, Epistrophe

    Your prompt: hero(ine)
    Today’s form: ballad
    Today’s device: anaphora and epistrophe
    Anaphora simply means the repetition of the same word (or cluster of words) at the beginning of multiple lines of verse in the same poem. Epistrophe is its counterpart: the repeated words appear at the end of lines.