With an insistent refrain the Balada is a dance song with a full refrain after each stanza. The refrain’s first line is also repeated after the first and second line or section of each stanza. The poem consists of three etanzaic verses of at least five lines, such as quintets, sestets, octets, etc. The first two stanzas are identical in structure and the third forms the refrain or the repos
There is no set meter, although 6 or 7 syllable lines are the most common.
Rhyme scheme using quintains: AbAbA bAbaA bAbaB
.Example
Dumb Them Down by Larry Eberhart
Don’t let them learn too much,
just dumb them down in school.
Don’t let them learn too much,
they’re easier to fool.
Don’t let them learn too much.
Get them before pre-school.
Don’t let them learn too much.
Indoctrination’s cool;
they’ll need us for a crutch.
Don’t let them learn too…
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