Lastly, letâs look at âsaturation,â or âchromaâ. Saturation defines the brilliance and intensity of a color. When a pigment hue is âtoned,â both white and black (grey) are added to the color to reduce the colorâs saturation.
1 Stories. 2  Ballads tend to be narrative poems, poems that tell stories, as opposed to lyric poems, which emphasize the emotions of the speaker. 3  Ballad stanzas. 4  The traditional ballad stanza consists of four lines, rhymed abcb (or sometimes abab --the key is that the second and fourth lines rhyme).
Unlike narrative poems, which tell a story, lyric poems can be a meditation on the poet's or poetic persona's life and observations about the world, or a celebration of events such as the passage of seasons. Lyric poetry is found in numerous poetic traditions, both past and present.yric and narrative poems may be based on the same subjects, such as war, death, love or the passage of time. However, lyric poems typically lack characters, action and a narrative thread.