Concise and musical, this is one of the most popular versions of a much-reworked ballad of aching love and loss An interesting literary analysis of one of my favorite old ballads, The Unquiet Grave The repetitions from verse to verse, a common mnemonic or musical patterning, here have the effect of bringing the lovers touchingly close, as if one echoed the other. However, if it was written down correctly, no extra translations should have resulted. Though he loves her a batch. Theme is a cardinal message or penetration into life revealed through a literary work. The Ballad of Birmingham is a lyric poem with an ABAB structure. No problem! He uses a young man as his comparison because young men are very brave and usually nave; thus they are willing to risk everything for their love. Happiness must be mans goal, even in the face of the destruction of the war, which is still going on as the book ends. Nobody is ready to lose the people they love and it hurts. The reference to the "small drops of rain" faintly recalls the lovely quatrain from the early 16th century, "Westron wynde, when wilt thou blow/ The small raine down can raine?/ Cryst, if my louve were in my armes/ And I in my bedde again!" All these elements are in its favor because they've utilized them all perfectly. document.write('