Ballade

: The most defining feature is that the last line of every stanza (including the envoi) is identical, acting as a recurring anchor for the poem's theme.

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

: It uses a strict recurrent rhyme pattern, typically ababbcbc for the eight-line stanzas and bcbc for the four-line envoi. : The most defining feature is that the