Balbale

Balbale (from Sumarian bal—change—); is a Sumer form of poem; a kind of changing songs, parallelism. Most part of Tammuz and Enkimdu (an adamanduga) consists of changes like this. There’s a reference to balbale in the colophon of the poem. Though it also may refer to the dialogue form of the writing. All hymns signed as balbalaes (Hymns to Ninurta, Hymns for Shu-Sin) contain changing repetitions. It is the most important feature of balbale. Dialogues referred as balbale consist of changing and unchanged periods also.