1. Some additional key details about Ballades: The envoi of a ballade is typically addressed to a prince, making it a type of

2. Ballade definition is - a fixed verse form consisting usually of three stanzas with recurrent rhymes, an envoi, and an identical refrain for each part.

3. The envoi depicts the reasons Mengfu made a wish to transcribe Buddhist scriptures were to call for happiness and gave devotions to the Buddha.

4. Not to be confused with the ballad, the Ballade contains three main stanzas, each with the same rhyme scheme, plus a shorter concluding stanza, or envoi.

5. Ballades follow a strict rhyme scheme ("ababbcbc"), and typically have three eight-line stanzas followed by a shorter four-line stanza called an envoi

6. Charlemagne: Father of a Continent is not just another biography but a fascinating and immensely useful one.” ― Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature "This book has been vividly and compellingly translated by Allan Cameron, and is an enjoyable and informative read."

7. Ballade in Henley's "Ballade (Double Refrain) Of Midsummer Days And Nights" This poem by William Ernest Henley is an example of a double-refrain Ballade, in which both line 8 and line 4 of the first stanza become refrains that are repeated throughout the poem, as well as in the envoi