CHAPTER XXIX.

RHYTHM.

Stability of metrical rules in Provençal poetry 311

Las Leys d’Amors 311

Dante’s ‘De Vulgari Eloquio’ applicable to Provençal poems 313

The limits of the length of a verse 313

Verses most frequently used 316

The decasyllabic verse (endecasyllabus) 318

The cæsura 318

In ‘Boethius’ and epical poems 320

The lyrical cæsura 323