La poétique du premier monologue amoureux de Lavine: éléments de versification (Énéas, v. 8082–8334)

Abstract

The study of the first love monologue of the Eneas, entrusted to Lavine, highlights how the musicality of the octosyllabic in this proto-novel is both traditio­nal and innovative. The purpose of this study is to clarify and reconsider the art of the anonymous versifier and to reposition it in literary history: the often regular and measured scansion 4-4 of the octosyllable, the small number of discrepancies between meter and Syntax, the low proportion of rich and leonine rhymes or even feminine rhymes are all signs of a still young, evolving versification. The frequency with which the writer breaks the verse, however, similar to that observed a few decades later in Chrétien de Troyes, is a real innovation that should be restored.