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).
An example of Ballad Poems can be found as follows: Example of Ballad Poems-Excerpt. The MermaidbyUnknown author. Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.