original_query: What is the definition of the Ballades according to Pierre Louÿs?
query: What is the definition of Paul Fort's Ballades according to Pierre Louÿs?
answer: According to Pierre Louÿs, the Ballades are small poems in polymorphous form or in familiar alexandrins, but which bend towards the normal prose form, requiring the rules of rhythmic prose rather than those of verse diction.