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Ballade

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Poems using the French "Ballade" form (not to be confused with the Ballad)

("A ballade is a type of poem. Its rhyme scheme consists of three eight-line stanzas (octets) with an ABABBCBC pattern followed by a BCBC quatrain (the envoi)")

Contents of this tag:

  1. Lucian B. Watkins, "Ballade to Paul Laurence Dunbar" (1918)
  2. Jessie Fauset, "Rain Fugue" (1924)