Variations
There are many easy-to-identify variations to the ballade. It is in many ways similar to the ode and chant royal.
Some ballades have five stanzas.
A seven-line ballade, or ballade royal, consists of four stanzas of rhyme royal, all using the same three rhymes, all ending in a refrain, without an envoi.
A ballade supreme has ten-line stanzas rhyming ababbccdcD, with the envoi ccdcD or ccdccD. An example is Ballade des Pendus by François Villon.
There are instances of a double ballade and double-refrain ballade.
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