The author points out the typographic singularities of the “Litany of sleep” and its metric singularities concerning monorimy, heterostrophy, as well as the distribution of rhymes according to their gender and their number. After recalling the evolution of the poet’s strophic, and proposing a few intertexts, he presents a diptych extracted from “catechisms poissards”, to which he confronts the litany of Corbière. Religious litanies, even if they were parodied, thus gave way to a forgotten genre of popular and carnival literature, which the poet could appreciate: the poissarde apostrophe.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques