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).
In ballads, there are usually eight or six syllables in a line. Like any poem, some ballads follow this form and some don't, but almost all ballads are narrative, which means they tell a story. Because the ballad was originally set to music, some ballads have a refrain, or a repeated chorus, just like a song does. Similarly, the rhyme scheme is often ABAB because of the musical quality of this rhyme pattern.