Espérez-Vous Que La Postérité by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Espérez-Vous Que La Postérité that begins with:

Espérez-vous que la postérité
Doive, mes vers, pour tout jamais vous lire ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XaXX bbX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011110 1111110110 1011111 110011000 11011110 110011111110 1110111110 10111100 1111100010 1100011110 110111111 101111111 101001110 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet repeated the same word robe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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