Ce n'est le fleuve tusque au superbe rivage,

Joachim du Bellay 1525 (Liré) – 1560 (Paris)



Ce n'est le fleuve tusque au superbe rivage,
Ce n'est l'air des Latins, ni le mont Palatin,
Qui ores, mon Ronsard, me fait parler latin,
Changeant à l'étranger mon naturel langage.

C'est l'ennui de me voir trois ans et davantage,
Ainsi qu'un Prométhée, cloué sur l'Aventin,
Où l'espoir misérable et mon cruel destin,
Non le joug amoureux, me détient en servage.

Eh quoi, Ronsard, eh quoi, si au bord étranger
Ovide osa sa langue en barbare changer
Afin d'être entendu, qui me pourra reprendre

D'un change plus heureux ? nul, puisque le français,
Quoiqu'au grec et romain égalé tu te sois,
Au rivage latin ne se peut faire entendre.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBA ABBA CCC DDC
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 639
Words 110
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

Joachim du Bellay

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