Marcher D'Un Grave Pas, Et D'Un Grave Sourcil, by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Marcher D'Un Grave Pas, Et D'Un Grave Sourcil, that begins with:

Marcher d'un grave pas, et d'un grave sourcil,
Et d'un grave souris à chacun faire fête,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX 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: 1011111110 111101011 1001111011 101101111101 10010110110 1111001001 11111111110 100110111010 100010110001 11011010001 1011011100 101111110 1101111111 111110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; grave, d'un, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).

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