A French form consists of three seven- or eight-line stanzas.

• A. Dizi
• B. Gum Leaf
• C. Ballade
• D. Yangqin

Answer: (C)

The form described is a ballade, a French lyric form that traditionally uses three stanzas of seven or eight lines each and ends with a short concluding envoy. In the ballade, each stanza shares the same rhyme pattern and typically ends with a refrain—the same line repeated at the end of each stanza—with the envoy providing a concluding touch. In musical contexts, the term ballade carries forward this sense of a lyrical, narrative piece rooted in the French verse tradition. The other names are not French verse forms: they refer to instruments from other cultures—a Chinese flute, a leaf-based wind instrument, and a hammered dulcimer—so they don’t fit the description of a French formal poetic-music structure.