ballads considered as a group; also, the sharing (transmission), making and performing of ballads, ballads as an activity, as a tradition, as a body of work, as a craft, as implying a community of singers, makers and lovers of ballads.
The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses