Ballade

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

    "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."

  2. 2
    a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy wordnet
  3. 3
    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.

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

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