Romances sans paroles repeatedly breaks the rules of the French versification from the alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes and the uniformity of stanza patterns to the clear distinction of successive rhymes. In this article I try to go beyond this well-known fact and to investigate the effect of those deviations on the stanza and the poem as a whole.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques