Abstract
Many of Jacques Prévert's poems were produced as popular songs by music composers such as Joseph Kosma. Analyses of text-melody relations in these songs prove the composers' techniques can make use of the original poetry texts. Prévert's poems are characterized by his typical rhythm and rhyme structure, and by his poetic effects of repetition and refrain of phrases. These characteristics are synchronized to the rhythms and phrases of the accompanying melodies.
The unique beauties of poetry and music respectively make for a succesful marriage, and create a new aesthetic value, and an original poetic beauty for the song. Prévert's truly “popular” songs prove this assertion.
