What is the author's style in Service's, Collected Verse?

Because of their lyrical rhythms and balanced rhymes, Service's verses are easy to remember and recite aloud. They exhibit the qualities of an oral tradition of an earlier age, when minstrels and bards wandered about, singing songs and reciting adventures. Ballads are simply poems meant to be sung. Like most ballads, Service's tell dramatic stories of courage, romance, or heroic defeat. Above all, they seek to entertain.