Ballade 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.Example:How to pronounce 'Ballade', as in a Chopin Ballade?Taxonomyballade, stanzas, refrain, real things, line stanzas, free encyclopedia, double ballade, Ballade des Pendus, ballade royal, ballads, writers, rhyme, stone, went down, variations, search, eight-line, last line.Defination from the web:ballade (pronounced /bəˈlɑːd/; not to be confused with the ballad) is a verse form typically consisting of three eight-line stanzas, each ... In Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (play), it is a ballade that Cyrano composes impromptu during a duel. ...
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