Select the traditional definition of the "ballad" from the following:
1
A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in its stanzaic structure
2
A song transmitted orally, that tells a story.
3
A poem written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines to refer to the subject matter of change and loss.
4
Any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought and feeling.