ballade

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bal=lade

CIDE DICTIONARY

ballade, n. [See Ballad, n.].

 A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ballade, n.
1 a poem of one or more triplets of stanzas with a repeated refrain and an envoy.
2 Mus. a short lyrical piece, esp. for piano.

Etymology

earlier spelling and pronunc. of BALLAD