Hi all,
In this song, the french lyrics are written with alexandrines.
An hemistiche is half of an alexandrine.

https://soundcloud.com/christian-devienne/les-hemistiches

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Here's a translation in English :

Hemistiches

It took me time to get on the train
who led my verses to these Alexandrines.
This constraint is intentional and may seem sterile.
Is poetry an useless art ?
The hemistiches are scrolling . You like it or you don't care.
Language, you clear it. Sometimes you fall in love with it.

This is, you will say, only an exercise in style.
Words are like flowers fertilizing their pistils.
It's a mind game that aims to pick
and articulate them before writing them.
The hemistiches are scrolling . You like it or you don't care.
Language, you clear it. Sometimes you fall in love with it.