Contrerime

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The Contrerime is a special form of the French quatrain . This stanza form combines embracing rhyme (abba) and crossed metrics (8  syllables , 6 syllables, 8 syllables, 6 syllables). This creates a targeted asymmetry. The French original name could therefore be translated appropriately as "transverse liner".

The contrerime gave its name to Paul-Jean Toulet. Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) is known as a French poet for their lyrical form, because he had specially trained them.

Under Toulet's successors, Francis Carco and Tristan Derème have taken his work as a model in a young group of authors. The authors who call themselves “ Fantaisistes ” have rarely created Contrerimes. Toulets Contrerimes were published in various magazines and found their way into his novels; It was not until 1916 that they were consciously collected and then edited a few months after his death.

example

Ce n'est pas drôle de mourir
Et d'aimer tant de choses:
La nuit bleue et les matins roses,
Les fruits lents à mûrir ...

analogously in German:

It is no luck to love a hundred things
and to die:
fruits that gradually change color,
the frost, the spring shoot ...

Before Toulet, this stanza was used extremely rarely. It can also be found again in Leconte de Lisle, Le Manchy:

Sous un nuage frais de claire mousseline,
Tous les dimanches au matin,
Tu venais à la ville en manchy de rotin,
Par les rampes de la colline.