A History of French Versification

abab abba accented according Alexandrine Alfred de Musset already amour Baïf Ballades beginning Bellay called cesura chant Christine de Pisan Clément Marot composed consonant decasyllabic line different eight eighteenth century epic cesura especially Eustache Deschamps Euvres example fifteenth first followed follows found four French poets French verse frequently Gautier generally great half hemistich hiatus Ibid invariably isometric kind known last Leconte de Lisle Légende des Siècles likewise lyric lyrical poetry Malherbe masculine measure Middle French Modern French modern poets monosyllabic Musset mute nineteenth century number occasionally occur octosyllabic lines Odes Odes et Ballades pause period poems Poés poetic Premières Poésies present pronounced pronunciation quatrain quoted rhythmical rich rime riming Romanticists rondeau Ronsard rule Rutebeuf same seven seventeenth century short six syllables sixteenth century sonnet sound strophe strophic syllables tercets Théodore de Banville three time used Verlaine Victor Hugo vowel words works