Dreams is a ballad because the writer uses repetative speech. "Hold fast to dreams" is an example of the repetative speech in the poem. Dreams gives the impression of sadness and cold. "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" gives the reader the image of the broken winged bird unable to fly. "Life is a barren field frozen with snow" makes the reader think of a cold and dessolate field.
Summer is a free verse poem because the writer used rhyming but there