Ballade
[bæ'lɑ:d]
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Definition
n. a poem of one or more terns or triplets of seven or eight lined stanzas each ending with the same line as refrain and usually an envoy: now frequently used of any poem in stanzas of equal length.—Ballade royal stanzas of seven or eight lines of ten syllables—called also Rime or Rhythm royal.
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