0 a poem with one or more sets of three stanzas (= groups of lines) and a refrain (= a repeated part) -- 三节联韵诗
Our hero, the versifying soldier with the oversize nose, improvises a ballade during the duel.
He joined a criminal organization, the "Brotherhood of the Coquille", and wrote some of his ballades in its secret jargon.
This is exactly the sequence of proportional durations of the breve in our ballade.
Looking at the manuscript context, the ballade keeps company with fairly mainstream material.
Each set of rondeaux is grafted by rhyme onto the ballades.
