Ballade Royale
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | This is a variant of the ballade using rhyme royal stanzas
with four full stanzas rather than the half-stanza envoy. It will usually be written in lines of iambic pentameter, but always should be isosyllabic
lines. | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme and Repetition: ababbcC ababbcC ababbcC ababbcC
“C” is a refrain. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 7 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 28 | | |
| Reference: | | Reference Link | | |
| See Also: | | Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Ballade, Iambic Pentameter, Rhyme
Royal | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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