Philological Glosses (VI): “Tot muda i tot roman” or “Tot roman i tot muda”?  Rhythm and Rhyme in J.V. Foix

This article traces the most crucial moments in the friendship between poets J.V. Foix and Gabriel Ferrater focusing on what could be considered its culmination: the poem that Foix wrote in the summer of 1973 in Port de la Selva after the death of his friend. Particularly, the study proposes an interpretation of what Foix achieved with the changes he made, in the various versions of the text that have been preserved, in the famous two lines that close the poem. The analysis stresses its effects on rhyme, prosody and rhythm.