It is set in a traditional English melody and structure and uses, as Thompson describes it, the "bright language" of the ballad tradition.

These bands may or may not integrate the ballad tradition in their largely instrumental music.

Patrick Galvin (born 1927) worked mainly with the ballad tradition and his poetry displays his left-wing politics.

The ballad tradition has grown to include some of these influences including Chinese and Filipino.

Bermuda's ballad tradition has declined in the 20th and 21st century, though it remains popular among a devoted subculture on the island.

In the Celtic ballad tradition, the Pogues's songs usually tell stories, about anything from wild sprees to the brutality of war.

These three stanzas stood out to me as being most evocative of the ballad tradition which has informed and inspired this poem.

They were first transcribed in the previous century, but the ballad tradition has been handed down from the Middle Ages.

The Swedish ballad tradition had been initiated by Bellman in the late 18th century.

The region has an active corridor or ballad tradition.