Which type of poetry has a song-like quality and focuses on the lives of ordinary people? ballads sonnets limericks

Ballads are the type of poetry that has a song-like quality and focuses on the lives of ordinary people.

Explanation:

A ballad is a verse that contains 6 to 8 syllables and that are written in around 13 lines. They were developed in medieval France and were created to accompany dance melodies. Then, English poets adopted them and became very popular in the 19th century in English literature. They talked about common topics, about culture, or in other words. Day to day life events and stories or common people. Because aristocrats and nobility didn't practice to dance melodies accompanied by ballads, they preferred other types of music like the waltz.

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.