Estudio de la métrica de las canciones contenidas en Les Chansons des Pélerins de S. Jacques (1718)

Abstract

In the present article we offer an analysis of the manner in which the six songs included in the 1718 book Les Chansons des Pélerins de S. Jacques were composed. This work is one of the many edited in France, mainly from the XVI to the XVIII centuries, for the use of pilgrims on their journey to Santiago de Compostela. The study of metrics in these compositions (rhyme, meter and stanzas), together with other factors, such as the themes and functions of the songs, will be of use to establish whether they were cultivated or popular poetry, how they were received by the public and to settle the time in which they were most likely written and published for the first time.