Royal Song

The royal song is an old part of Poésie French invented with and cultivated with favor until.

The origin of the name of this Poem with fixed form, made up of five Stanza S with the rhythmic diagram identical and using same the Rhyme S, followed by a additional Verse or Sending forming a sixth stanza, shorter, is dubious. According to the ones, the royal song was addressed to a king or, at least, some high-ranking person, and the sending, starting with these words: “Lord, king, prince, or princess,” made the application to the recipient of the allegorical subject or satirical of the part. According to others, the name of royal song came from what the subject, given to the contest, was proposed by that which had gained the price the previous year, and which had received the title of prince or of King.

Introduced into French poetry by Christine de Pisan and Charles of Orleans, the royal song was especially devoted, under the veil of the Allégorie to the Satire. It was said that poetry was about it to be impressed of size and majesty; but it was especially a exercise having for first deserves the overcome difficulty. Subjected, indeed, to puerile obstacles, the royal song, composed of five or six verses of ten Towards at least, it rolled on five rhymes brought back in the same order. Last the worms of the first verse was used as Refrain with the following. One can see, like sample, the royal Chanson of Eustace Deschamps, satire allegorical where the animal complain about their misery, which comes to them from the court. Mowed and shaved of too near, they are repeating this refrain:

For this, you pri, keep you barbers.

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 427

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