This article examines Verlaine’s use of polymetry and alternating forms in poetry and identifies in these techniques the resources used by the poet to question and undermine traditional French verse form.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-10091-1
EAN:9782406100911
ISSN: 2426-8860
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10091-1.p.0153
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-24-2020
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Paul Verlaine, nineteenth-century French literature, history of poetic forms, versification, polymetry, stanzas, rhymes, alternating rhymes