ballade

Meaning

1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

Synonyms

ballad

lay

minstrelsy

song

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Etymology

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.