What Does Ballad Mean?

Ballad is a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain or the music for such a poem. Ballad also refer to a popular song especially of a romantic or sentimental nature. The popular composition of anonymous ballads began after the 12th
century in many countries in Western Europe, including the
Celtic-speaking ones. Also Visit Ballad Meaning, Usage Examples and Synonyms.

A ballad is like a poem that tells you a simple story with a moral at the end or in the middle of it a ballad often has a 4 line stanza (verse) then a chorus some long ballads are put to music.
The word ballad is originally French and the word actually means dancing song some ballads are so old that there exact words are not known because when they were first made up they were not written down they were just passed around from generation to generation