Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
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.
Origin
Borrowed from French ballade. ballad.
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