Article: L'Art metrique de la chanson de geste: Essai sur la musicalite de recit.

Edward A. Heinemann aims to study epic formulaic variation in Old French from the standpoint of the relation between the 'grammatical unit' and the 'metrical unit', and the stylistic significance of this.

By 'metrical', as applied to the line, he means 'isosyllabic', while in the larger context he uses 'metrical' (as applied to grammatical and narrative 'units') in a less and less precise way to mean 'discours mesure' (p. 20).

In his first chapter he attempts to justify using the verse-line at the grammatical level as 'une unite a la fois minimale et complete' (p. 51), rejecting the hemistich because it does not express 'une idee entiere' (p. 52); but his ...

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