This article is about Verlaine’s metric distortions such as enjambments and rejets over the caesura and their impact on the way Debussy sets poetry to music. The composer experiments a new musical discourse, dictated specifically by the literary rhythm, which has freed itself from the notion of meter.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques