| Title: La Courante
A French form, which found on this website; http://www.anthologie.free.fr/traite/traite04_04.htm
La Courante was a dance in the baroque period. Paul Scarron wrote in this form; in France it is known as one of the first classic free verse poems.
This poem is formed by two stanzas. The first stanza is model for the second stanza. In a way a kind of refrain is visible in the last three lines of the second stanza.
Rhyme scheme and syllables...
The syllables in the Courante line:
1 - 6
2 - 6
3 - 6
4 - 10
5 - 12
6 - 6
7 - 8
8 - 4
9 - 5
10 - 4
11 - 6
12 - 10
The rhyme can be divided in three parts. Scarron "played" with it in the second stanza, but as general you can keep this in your mind:
a/b/b/a/a c/d/d/c e/d/e
The last three lines in the second stanza do have the same rhyme as in the first stanza. |
