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 Translation for 'ballad' from English to Russian
NOUN   a ballad | ballads
SYNO ballad | lay
лит.
баллада {ж}
ballad
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Translation for 'ballad' from English to Russian

ballad
баллада {ж}лит.
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Usage Examples English
  • Each ballad type is given a short description, including a summary of the differences of the variants of the ballad and how they differ, and comprises a list of appearances in various Nordic ballad collections.
  • "Young Johnstone" is Child ballad 88, a border ballad that exists in several variants. The ballad tells the story of a woman killed either by her brother or lover, depending on the variant.
  • "Lady Isabel" is an English ballad known as Child Ballad 261 and Roud #3884.
  • A version of this ballad was published in Peter Buchan's "Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland".
  • Sir James the Rose is Child ballad 213. It was published as a broadside ballad.

  • Hobie Noble is Child ballad 189 and a border ballad.
  • Child ballad 90 "Jellon Grame" has affinities to this ballad.
  • Child ballad 89 "Fause Foodrage" has affinities to this ballad.
  • This ballad closely parallels Child ballad 100, "Willie o Winsbury".
  • Some European variants of the ballad "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight", Child ballad 4, closely resemble this tale.

  • This ballad closely parallels Child ballad 99, "Johnie Scot".
  • Deborah Grabien's third book in the "Haunted Ballad" series, "Matty Groves" (2005), puts a different spin on the ballad.
  • By the time of the ballad opera though, the tune was no longer popular, suggesting that this ballad had a relatively short shelf life in comparison to more popular ballads like The Ballad of Chevy Chase and Barbara Allen (song).
  • The ballad is mostly composed in iambic pentameter, rather than the traditional ballad meter. The ballad has an AABB rhyme scheme, with thirty quatrains composing the ballad.
  • "Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer" is a ballad written by Friedrich Schiller, as part of his 1797 ballad competition with Goethe.

  • There is a Swedish ballad (...) entitled "Havmannen" about a merman abducting a girl; the Danish ballad "Rosmer Havmand" is a cognate ballad based on the same legend.
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