Творчество Мозаичников

[Aliskana]

Wow!

[Ordinator]

Kids... That insurmountable force of destruction...

[Aliskana]

That's why you don't love the progressive and innovative persons? They remind you the unbearable kids?

[Ordinator]

The problem is "progressive" people are seldom innovative. The technical progress has almost halted comparing to the XX century. The evergrowing number of pixels and each year thinner tablet PCs ain't no progress. No new da Vincis on the skyline.

[Persona]

Предлагаю.

Усложним задачу: балладу на тему неба/небес.

(Обожаю честертоновские баллады ).

[Ordinator]

С балладами варьируется. Нужно уточнять схему рифмования и количество катренов.

Плюс ещё отмечу, что небо - это опять-таки вдохновляющая штуковина.

[Persona]

Стихотворная форма включающая три строфы на одинаковые рифмы (ababbcc для семистрочной, ababccdd для восьмистрочной, ababbccdcd для десятистрочной строфы; возможны и другие схемы рифмовки) с рефреном в конце строфы.

Я три восьмистишия и посылку имела в виду.

[Ordinator]

Мы всё ещё об английском говорим?

A ballad /ˈbæləd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "danced songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Ballads are 13 lines with a ABABBCBC form, ballads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad

Ballads were originally written to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines. These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains (four-line stanzas) of alternating lines of iambic (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter (six syllables), known as ballad meter. Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed (in the scheme a, b, c, b), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. This can be seen in this stanza from "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet":

The horse | fair Ann | et rode | upon |
He amb | led like | the wind |,
With sil | ver he | was shod | before,
With burn | ing gold | behind |.

There is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult. In southern and eastern Europe, and in countries that derive their tradition from them, ballad structure differs significantly, like Spanish romanceros, which are octosyllabic and use consonance rather than rhyme.

Ballads usually use the common dialect of the people and are heavily influenced by the region in which they originate. Scottish ballads in particular are distinctively un-English, even showing some pre-Christian influences in the inclusion of supernatural elements such as the fairies in the Scottish ballad "Tam Lin". The ballads do not have any known author or correct version; instead, having been passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages, there are many variations of each. The ballads remained an oral tradition until the increased interest in folk songs in the 18th century led collectors such as Bishop Thomas Percy to publish volumes of popular ballads.

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise, and rely on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic. Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend. Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad#Ballad_form

[Persona]

Да, об английском

Типа такого, классическая форма

A Ballad Of Theatricals

Though all the critics' canons grow-
Far seedier than the actors' own-
Although the cottage-door's too low-
Although the fairy's twenty stone-
Although, just like the telephone,
She comes by wire and not by wings,
Though all the mechanism's known-
Believe me, there are real things.

Yes, real people-even so-
Even in a theatre, truth is known,
Though the agnostic will not know,
And though the gnostic will not own,
There is a thing called skin and bone,
And many a man that struts and sings
Has been as stony-broke as stone . . .
Believe me, there are real things

There is an hour when all men go;
An hour when man is all alone.
When idle minstrels in a row
Went down with all the bugles blown-
When brass and hymn and drum went down,
Down in death's throat with thunderings-
Ah, though the unreal things have grown,
Believe me, there are real things.

ENVOY.

Prince, though your hair is not your own
And half your face held on by strings,
And if you sat, you'd smash your throne-
-Believe me, there are real things

[Persona]

Английская Википедия путает форму с жанром. Нехорошо с ее стороны