The most elaborate of the medieval French fixed forms, an extended ballade of five eleven-line stanzas plus a five-line envoi, all sharing one refrain line and built on only five rhyme sounds carried through sixty lines, traditionally reserved for weighty or ceremonial subjects.
Facts
Place of OriginFrance, 14th-15th century, a grander extension of the ballade form. 1 StructureFive stanzas of eleven lines each, rhymed ababccddedE, plus a five-line envoi rhymed ddedE, all stanzas and the envoi ending on the same refrain line E. 1 Notable ExampleChants royaux composed for the puys, the literary guild competitions of northern France. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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- Also in Geography Atlas: France, originated there.
Sources
1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University Press
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