I’m not sure why I decided to write a Ballade. It’s not a simple form and you need a lot of rhyming words. The rhyming pattern is: a, b, a, b, b, c, b, C. The capitalized C is because it has a repeated refrain.
There are three octaves, and each octave is 8 lines and the poet can choose the number of syllables per line. I chose 10 in this case.
There are three octaves, followed by a quatrain which has the rhyming pattern: b, c, b, C
I decided to write the first few lines and then wr