bal·lade /bəˈlɑd, bæ-/
  三節聯韻詩,敘事曲
  Bal·lade 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.
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  ballade
       n : a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy