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How is the ballad Casey at the Bat a ballad?

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Because it is written in a varation of the ballad stanza--a rhyming, four line, metrically regular stanza.

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Also, the ballad form traditionally tells a story. Other poetic forms (set to music or not) often deal with a single emotion or event, and aren't narrative in nature.

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