Ballade ✭

In music, the ballade evolved from a vocal form into a major genre of solo instrumental music, particularly for the piano.

: The most defining feature is that the last line of every stanza (including the envoi) is identical, acting as a recurring anchor for the poem's theme. ballade

: It uses a strict recurrent rhyme pattern, typically ababbcbc for the eight-line stanzas and bcbc for the four-line envoi. In music, the ballade evolved from a vocal