Agrippa d’Aubigné et la contraction des sonnets. Les sonnets en vers lyriques dans “L’Hécatombe à Diane”

This article studies the sonnets of Agrippa d’Aubigné written in short verses (heptasyllables and octosyllables). In L’Hécatombe, the number of sonnets in lyric verse (generally reserved for odes and odelettes) amounts to ten and constitutes ten percent of the whole. This number invites us to reflect on their internal structures and the relationships they have with the regular sonnets that surround them. The article traces the origins of the sonnet of short verses until the beginning of the 17th century, then analyses the formal aspects of those of d’Aubigné, and finally measures the effect produced by the insertion of these short pieces within a collection where sonnets of long verses dominate. We thus see that the poet sought to extend his prosodic research as far as possible in order to give the forms a varietas which leads to their distortion.