Chant Du Désespéré by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Chant Du Désespéré that begins with:

La Parque si terrible
A tous les animaux, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXXXXXXXccXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 011100 11111100 10111 111110 0111100 1101 11110 1101111 111110 11110 010111 01001 11110 110110 111010 11111110 1111110 11010001 111111 111011 111100 111010 1111110 101111 101101 0111111 1111 101101 1111 110010 011100 100101 010010 01101 11111 11010 010011 10110 11111 011010 111111 01010 11001110 111100 111100 11111111 11011 11100 110100 011010 111100 110111 10110 101111 110110 111111 1010 011110 10111 110011 111100 101111 011010 110110 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1614
  • Average number of words per stanza: 299
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nuit, jouir are repeated).

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  • summary of Chant Du Désespéré;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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