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n. A verse form usually consisting of three stanzas of eight or ten lines each along with a brief envoy, with all three stanzas and the envoy ending in the same one-line refrain.

n. Music A composition, usually for the piano, having the romantic or dramatic quality of a narrative poem.

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

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.

n. A poem consisting of one or more triplets each formed of stanzas of seven or eight lines, the last line being a refrain common to all the stanzas.

n. A poem divided into stanzas having the same number of lines, commonly seven or eight.

n. In music, a term variously applied to melodies for ballads, to extended narrative or dramatic works for a solo voice, occasionally to concerted choral cantatas, and to instrumental pieces of a melodic character — in the last case often without obvious reason.

n. a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy

"After _A Midsummer Holiday_ no one can contend any longer that the ballade is a structure necessarily any more artificial than the sonnet."

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