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).
(December 2009). In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. This form consists of alternating four-and three-stress lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (in an a/b/c/b pattern). Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, alternating eight and six syllable lines.