Ballade

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ballade \Bal*lade"\, n. [See {Ballad}, 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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ballade
       n : a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy