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).
Product_catalog : School : LitLink : Grade06 : The Wreck of the Hesperus. Narrative Poem and Ballad. A narrative poem is any verse that tells a story. A ballad is a simple poem that tells a story. Most ballads have four-line stanzas, and the second and fourth lines usually rhyme. As you read âThe Wreck of the Hesperus,â think about how the poem is telling a story. Stanza. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem. Stanzas are usually separated by spaces from other stanzas.