Balassi Stanza
This stanza is believed to have been used by Balint Balassi, a hungarian poet. It is a three line form consisting of nineteen syllables per line: six in the first two lines, followed by seven in the third and repeated twice. It is broken up by intervals of rhyme that are as followed:
x. x. x. x. x. a.
x. x. x. x. x. a.
x. x. x. x. x. x. d
x. x. x. x. x. b
x. x. x. x. x. b
x. x. x. x. x. x. d
x. x. x. x. x. c
x. x. x. x. x. c
x. x. x. x. x. x. d
“Careless Lovers”
We danced with lightened hearts
As if we’d never part
And out grand love would be staid.
Yet the night grows longer
And soon left to ponder
What will come when day is made?
But for now we will cling
Till bells of morning ring
And our happiness must be paid.
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