ballade
Three-stanza verse form
A ballade is a verse form with three stanzas and an envoi, each ending with the same refrain line.
The form was popular in medieval French poetry and later revived by English poets.
Separately, a ballade is a Romantic-era piano piece, especially the four composed by Chopin: She performed Chopin's first ballade.
Poem's line grouping
- refrainAbstain from acting
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- verseMetered poetic passage
couplet · quatrain · octave · meter · enjambment · lyric · diction · imagery
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- minstrelTraveling performer of songs
- bardPoet of epics
- courtlyRefined and dignified
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
manuscript · parchment · recitation · jongleur · chanson · lai · dit · romance
Polish Romantic pianist-composer
- pianoKeyed percussion instrument
- nocturneContemplative keyboard piece
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
romantic · rubato · virtuoso · Liszt · Brahms · concert · interpretation · expressive
Spoken or written narrative
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- storyAccount of events
- chronicleOrdered historical record
- heroicExceptionally brave and noble
adventure · lament · tragic · dramatic · recounting · episode · protagonist · fate
Leg's lowest part
- meterDevice that measures usage
- iambTwo-syllable metrical foot
- trocheeStressed-then-unstressed foot
- dactylFinger, toe, or verse foot
spondee · pentameter · tetrameter · caesura · scansion · strophe · elision · substitution
stanza
Poem's line grouping
verse · couplet · quatrain · octave · meter · enjambment · lyric · diction · imagery · cadence
troubadour
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
chivalry · manuscript · parchment · recitation · jongleur · chanson · lai · dit · romance · performance
Chopin
Polish Romantic pianist-composer
- pianoKeyed percussion instrument
- nocturneContemplative keyboard piece
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
melody · romantic · rubato · virtuoso · Liszt · Brahms · concert · interpretation · expressive · dramatic
tale
Spoken or written narrative
heroic · adventure · lament · tragic · dramatic · recounting · episode · protagonist · fate · doom
foot
Leg's lowest part
dactyl · spondee · pentameter · tetrameter · caesura · scansion · strophe · elision · substitution · hexameter
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- musical piecesaria, cantata, concerto, etude, fugue
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- Chopinnocturne, mazurka, polonaise, waltz, etude
- Classical Pianopiano, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin
- european versesonnet, ode, villanelle, sestina, rondeau
balladefree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
prose poem · sonnet · haiku · epic · stream of consciousness
- power balladEmotional slow rock song
- love balladSlow romantic song
- romantic balladSentimental song about affection
- folk balladNarrative song passed orally
- rock balladSlow, emotional guitar-driven song
- pop balladSlow sentimental mainstream song