Ballade (2025)

: It uses a strict recurrent rhyme pattern, typically ababbcbc for the eight-line stanzas and bcbc for the four-line envoi.

Unlike the common "ballad" (a simple folk narrative), the is one of the formes fixes of French lyric poetry. ballade

: Traditionally consists of three stanzas followed by a shorter concluding stanza called an envoi . : It uses a strict recurrent rhyme pattern,