...Here is Dr. Samuel Johnson's parody of the predictable meters and restrained manner of the ballad: I put my hat upon my head And walked into the strand,...there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand. Johnson shows us the lows, step by stolid step. But the heights of the ballad form are reached in "Sir...

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