ballade

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    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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