A ballade is a form of medieval and renaissance French poetry in addition to the corresponding musical chanson form. It changed into one of the 3 formes fixes and one of the verse paperwork in France maximum typically set to song among the late 13th and the 15th centuries.
The ballade form typically includes 3 8-line stanzas, every with a regular metre and a particular rhyme scheme. The final line within the stanza is a refrain.
