This is an analysis of the poem De L'Inconstance Humaine that begins with:
À de vagues desseins l'homme est toujours en proie,
Son instabilité ne meurt qu'avecque lui, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011011 1100011110010 11101011111 1101111010 111110100110 110111011110 11101100111 1111011111 1101011110 101111110 1111101111110 111010101001 1111010110 111011111000 111101010010 11010110100 1011100110 110111111011 111010110 1111111011 1101111110 01111111011 1101101011000 1111001111111 01111110100 1111111110 110011101100 111111111100 101010110100 11111011110 1111010111 110111111100 01111111010 1110101111101 111011000110 1111111011 11100111101 1111011111111 1111011001 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, tour, de, ses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bien, ce, il, qui are repeated.
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More information about poems by Georges de Brébeuf
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