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Article: Accent and metre in later Old French verse: the case of the polyphonic rondel.
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2006
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The nature of metre in Old French verse is a matter of long-standing and ongoing controversy. One of the contributory factors is the irregular placement of word accents in corresponding lines of the verse forms. Jean Beck famously claimed to have examined more than ten thousand Provencal and Old French poems without finding one in which the word accents were distributed in exactly the same way in each stanza. (1) Yet a poem of the kind sought by Beck does exist, placed with the collection of rondels in the manuscript F-Pn fr. i2786 (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS f. fr. 12786), (2) Its form is what the slightly later Douce Chansonnier (Oxford, Bodleian ...
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