Abstract

Several contradictory theories have been proposed in an attempt to elucidate the reasons that lead Clément Marot and his followers to introduce the sonnet in France with a rhyme scheme different from those adopted by the Italian sonnet. After submitting these hypotheses to examination, we will offer a new explanation, complementary to those exposed by Jasinski and Vianey: the sonnet marotique is due to an effort to respect the ancestral rules of versification typical of French poetry. Hence, Marot and the other creators of the early French sonnets arranged the rhyme of the tercets according to the usual schemes of the six-line stanza

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