Ballad poems like most poems tell a story, but more like how epic poems tell their stories. Much like an epic poem a ballad poem is often based on a legend or a folk tale. Ballad poems may take the form of songs and may contain a moral or a lesson. Ballad poems differ from most poems because of its uncomplexed style of structure.
hope that helps if not just google the meaning of a ballad and compare it to other forms of poetry :)
