Ballade

: Traditionally consists of three stanzas followed by a shorter concluding stanza called an envoi .

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. : Traditionally consists of three stanzas followed by