Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his lack of social graces. At heart, he's just a fan. "The Ballad of Wallis ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music ... If the first syllable is stressed, as for example in ‘ha-ppy’, but not the second, it is called a trochee.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is ... history down through generations. More recent examples of this evolution would be "The Ballad of Jesse James." Coming forward to the protest ...