A History of French Versification

abab abba accented according Alexandrine already amour Baïf Ballades beginning Bellay called cesura chansons chant Christine de Pisan classical Clément Marot composed consonant cross rimes decasyllabic line different eight syllables eighteenth century especially Eustache Deschamps Euvres example feminine fifteenth first strophe five followed following follows form found four fourteenth French poets frequently Gautier generally great half hiatus Ibid invariably kind known last Leconte de Lisle Légende des Siècles likewise lyric lyrical poetry Malherbe measure Middle French Modern French modern poets monosyllabic Musset mute name nineteenth century number occasionally occurs octosyllabic lines Odes Odes et Ballades pause period poems Poés poetic present pronunciation quatrain quoted refrain riming Romanticists rondeau Ronsard rule Rutebeuf same seven seventeenth century short sixteenth century sonnet strophe strophic syllabic syllables tercets Théodore de Banville third three time twelve two lines used Verlaine verse Victor Hugo vowel words works