Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

They hadna’ been a week from her,
A week but barely three,
When word came to the carlin wife
That her sons she’d never see.
I wish the “wind may never cease,
Nor fashes in the flood.
Till my three sons come hame to me,
In earthly flesh and blood.”
Supplem ent
Folk Ballads
A folk ballad is a popular literary form. It comes from unlettered
people rather than from professional minstrels or scholarly poets.
That is why the ballad tends to express its meaning in simple
language. (But the centuries-old dialect o f many folk ballads may
seem to readers complex). The ballad stanza consists of four lines
(a quatrain), rhyming abcb, with four accented syllables within
the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth lines.
There “lived a “wife at “Usher’s “Well, 
a
And a “wealthy “was “she; 
b
She had “three “stout and “stalwart “sons, 
с
And “ sent Ihem “o ’er the “sea. 
b
Some folk ballads make use o f refrains, repetitions o f a line or
lines in every stanza without variation. Refrains add emphasis
and a note o f cont inuity to the ballads.
As regards to content, the ballads are usually divided into three
groups: historical, heroic, and romantic ballads. Historical ballads
were based on a historical fact, while heroic ballads were about
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people who were persecuted by the law or by their own families.
Among the most popular ones were those about Robin Hood,
who was an outlaw.
Robin Hood Ballads