ballade

• You simply cannot write a sonnet as a ballade, though some have tried. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
• Don't ram a sonnet into a ballade, as I said earlier. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
• After A Midsummer Holiday no one can contend any longer that the ballade is a structure necessarily any more artificial than the sonnet. —  Figures of Several Centuries
• This part of the ballade was to refresh the faint and weried bodies and spirits, and to animate new appetites with cherefull wordes, encoraging them to the recontinuance of the same entertainments, praising and commending (by supposall) the good conformities of them both, & their desire one to vanquish the other by such friendly conflictes: alledging that the first embracements neuer bred barnes, by reason of their ouermuch affection and heate, but onely made passage for children and enforced greater liking to the late made match. —  The Arte of English Poesie
• If I write an occasional ballade, it is for the mere pleasure of writing, and not because I seek notoriety such as Voiture enjoyed when in favor I like that ballade of yours on 'Henri at Cahors.' —  The Grey Cloak

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