Ballade
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A poem consisting of one or more triplets of stanzas with a repeated refrain and an envoi.
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a poem with one or more sets of three stanzas (= groups of lines) and a refrain (= a repeated part) :
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A poem normally composed of three stanzas and an envoi. The last line of the opening stanza is used as a refrain, and the same rhymes, strictly limited in number, recur throughout.
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