Regarding my "haiku-quatrain", contrary to what good usage in versification would require, I have deliberately chosen to count the number of syllables by considering only the formal structure of each word, regardless of its place and of its pronunciation in the verse. Ignoring, therefore, the rule of "  e  »Dumb, I take them all into consideration, whether they are placed in front of a vowel or not, at the end of the line or not ...

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Such a bias will undoubtedly shock the purists, but it pleased me to break this sacrosanct rule to substitute for it another, admittedly questionable, but which suited my frame of mind and the idea better. that I made myself of a restrictive framework likely to free my creativity.

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Philippe parrot