Verse (poetry)

Origins and modernity

The verse in poetry is a writing with form tending towards the Prose, but whose direction is eminently poetic. This type of writing draws its origin from the Bible, which confers certain properties spell-bindings to him: the mystical language, as well as the melody resulting from the verse, would tend towards another thing that a simple utility language: we are here in the field of the invocation.

Formally, the verse perhaps considered as a free Verse, i.e. worms without metric definite; however, the return to the line, poetic use if it were, is practiced in an not-arbitrary way: the white of the text defines a particular direction, as well as a breath, a rate/rhythm of the text.

Among the French poets having used the verse, let us quote Paul Claudel, enthusiastic catholic, who it first undoubtedly introduced this new poetic form within the French language, or, Saint-John Perse.

Here an extract of satin the Shoe (1929) of Claudel:

"Virgin, owner and mother of this house,

Answering and protective of this man whose heart is penetrable for you more than with me and partner of her long loneliness,

Alors if it is not for me, that it is because of him,

Since this bond between him and me was not my fact, but your intervening will:

Empêchez that I would be at this house of which you keep the door, majestic extern, a cause of corruption! "

(First day, scene V, verses 333-337)

Let us specify that the use of the verse in poetry is governed by no code, or is defined by any poetic art; in the facts, it is to be noticed that each poet endorses this poetic form, and employs the verse in a use which is clean for him. In other words, one could not compare the verse claudélien with that of Persia, each one having his characteristics into clean, which are to be sought in the major design that have each poet of their Article.

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