三節聯韻詩,敘事曲
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.
ballade n : a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy