Double Ballade
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | A ballade on steroids, this form has six octaves and may
have a quatrain envoy. The double ballade uses only three rhymes throughout with each verse keeping the pattern: ababbcbC and the envoy being bcbC with C being
a repeated refrain throughout.
This is also known as the Double Ballade with Eight-Line Stanza | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | ababbcbC
ababbcbC
ababbcbC
ababbcbC
ababbcbC
ababbcbC
bcbC | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 8 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 52 | | |
| See Also: | | Ballade, Chanso, Double, Double Ballade Supreme | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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