Question: is la belle dame sans merci a ballad

Answer: Yes, ``La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (French for ``The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy'') is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats. It exists in two versions with minor differences between them. The original was written by Keats in 1819. He used the title of the 15th-century La Belle Dame sans Mercy by Alain Chartier, though the plots of the two poems are different.