BALLADE

ballade

(noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

ballade (plural ballades)

(music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

(poetry) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

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• Abdella

Source: Wiktionary

Bal*lade", n. Etym: [See Ballad, n.]

Definition: A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition