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CHANT ROYAL , one of the fixed forms of verse invented by the ingenuity of the poets of medieval France. It is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses. All the strophes are written on the five rhymes exhibited in the first strophe, the entire poem, therefore, consisting of sixty lines in the course of which five rhymes are repeated. It has been conjectured that the chant royal is an extended ballade, or rather a ballade conceived upon a larger scale; but which form preceded the other appears to be uncertain. On this point Henri de Croi, who wrote about these forms of verse in his Art et science de rhetorique (1493), throws no light. He dwells, however, on the great
Etienne
Chant Royal, by its length and the rigidity of its structure, is better fitted than the ballade for solemn and pompous themes. In Old French, the most admired chants royal are those of Clement Marot ; his Chant royal chrestien, with its refrain ." Sante au corps, et Paradis a fame," was celebrated. Theodore
This species of poem was unknown in English
Great
quarter of the 19th century . The earliest chant royal in English
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