Writing in Snow

Ballad of The Weredragon

(Refrain)
The mountain smoked, belched fire and nauseous gas,
The town folk said the dragon walked abroad,
In the guise of a beautiful lad or lass,
Crystal chose to ignore the warning signs.

(I)
On the night of the first full moon of spring,
Crystal put on a golden evening gown,
Barrowed her mother’s unique diamond ring,
And her great grandmother’s silver crown.

(II)
Crystal went to the season’s cotillion,
Looking like only one in a billion,
There she flirted with a bronze-eyed stranger,
A man she thought was a forest ranger.

(Refrain)

(III)
When the moon began to set in the west,
He ask her to breakfast at dragon pass,
As she dined with him on the mountain’s crest,
He ask her to wear her beautiful dress.

(IV)

Hand-in-hand they left the dance at midnight,
He took her into his arms and kissed her lips,
Turned into a bronze dragon and took flight,
Beautiful Crystal never returned home.

(Refrain)

Form: Ballad has specific rhyme structure that is normally 4 lines long. The rhyme scheme is one of the following abab, aabb, or abac, with the last line being the chorus line. There are a specific number of syllables, decide the syllable length and stick to it. The ballad is a story and repeats the chorus throughout the poem. Decide on the story, the repeated line, and then add versus to the poem.