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).
1 ballade - A verse or poem made up of three stanzas of equal length with a recurrent line or refrain at the end of each of the stanzas.  burden, refrain, chorus - The burden is the main theme or gist of a speech, book, or argumentâor the refrain or chorus of a song.