Anagramméana, poëme en huit chants

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Anagramméana, poëme en huit chants

by G. A. J. (Gabriel Antoine Joseph) Hécart

FR·~37 minutes·13 chapters

Chapters

13 total

ANAGRAMMÉANA.

0:25

ANAGRAMMÉANA, POËME EN HUIT CHANTS.

0:23

AVERTISSEMENT DE L'IMPRIMEUR sur cette 95me édition.

0:52

PRÉFACE.

3:54

CHANT PREMIER.

2:59

CHANT DEUXIÈME.

4:00

CHANT TROISIÈME.

3:11

CHANT QUATRIÈME.

4:22

CHANT CINQUIÈME.

3:39

CHANT SIXIÈME.

3:40

Description

Inside a cramped, dust‑lined room, a solitary figure leans over a battered table scattered with ink, a mason’s trowel and a hammer. The walls are plastered with riddles—anagrams, charades, rebuses—hinting at a game of language as much as a work of poetry. From this modest workshop emerges a poem that treats each line as a puzzle, inviting the listener to untangle meaning while savoring rhythm.

Divided into eight short chants, the piece moves like a verbal kaleidoscope; words are rearranged, rhymes twist, and the same verses can be heard in reverse or from any point without losing their charm. The narrator’s witty preface explains the craft, celebrating the joy of a laugh‑induced mind and the humble mason who dared to fuse craft and verse. As the verses unfold, the listener is treated to a playful meditation on language, wit, and the simple pleasure of turning letters into music.

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Language

fr

Duration

~37 minutes (35K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2021-03-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

G. A. J. (Gabriel Antoine Joseph) Hécart

G. A. J. (Gabriel Antoine Joseph) Hécart

1755–1838

A curious, wide-ranging French man of letters, he moved easily between language, local history, natural history, poetry, and antiquarian research. He is especially remembered for preserving the speech and culture of Valenciennes and French Hainaut.

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