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The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
Epic poems in French (1 C, 26 P) H. Poetry by Michel Houellebecq (2 P) French humorous poems (1 C, 1 P) M. Poetry by Stéphane Mallarm ...
The formes fixes (French: [fɔʁm fiks]; singular: forme fixe, "fixed form") are the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai.Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of a complex pattern of repetition of verses and a refrain with musical content in two main sections.
Poetry by French poets and poetry written in French. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. + French poets (18 C, 251 P)
A rondeau (French:; plural: rondeaux) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry, as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.
The ballade (/ b ə ˈ l ɑː d /; French:; not to be confused with the ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. It was one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the rondeau and the virelai ) and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the ...
The Baroque poetry replaced Mannerism and includes several schools, especially most artificial poetic style of the early 17th-century. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It involved Giambattista Marino , Lope de Vega , John Donne , Vincent Voiture , Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Georges de Scudéry , Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , John Milton , Andreas Gryphius , and ...
List of poets who have written in the French language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .