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Ballade   /bəlˈɑd/   Listen
Ballade

noun
1.
A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.





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"Ballade" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Tribune described G. K. Chesterton as having been born about the date that Captain Chesterton published his books, he replied in a ballade which at once ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... Preface Elzevirs Ballade of the Real and Ideal Curiosities of Parish Registers The Rowfant Books To F. L. Some Japanese Bogie-books Ghosts in the Library Literary Forgeries Bibliomania in France Old French Title-pages A Bookman's Purgatory Ballade of ...
— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang
... in the Spenserian Stanza, a form which the poet himself invented as a suitable vehicle for a long narrative poem. Suggestions for its construction were taken from three Italian metres—the Ottava Rima, the Terza Rima, the Sonnet—and the Ballade stanza. There are eight lines in the iambic pentameter measure (five ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... restored, Barry began to play. For his opening number he made a daring choice. It was the intricate but altogether tuneful Ballade and Polonaise by Vieuxtemps. Throughout the somewhat lengthy number he held his audience fixed under the mastery of his art. It was a triumph immediate and complete. When he had finished the last brilliant movement of the Polonaise, the men burst again into enthusiastic ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor


Words linked to "Ballade" :   poem, verse form


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