Mars, Vergogneux D'Avoir Donné Tant D'Heur by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Mars, Vergogneux D'Avoir Donné Tant D'Heur that begins with:

Mars, vergogneux d'avoir donné tant d'heur
A ses neveux que l'impuissance humaine...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab XXXX Xba XXa
  • 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: 110010111 0110110010 10011001 10101101 100011010 100110111 1011111010 11011010 1110111011 1010110011 111100111 11110101011 1011111101 1111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • 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; de is repeated.

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

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  • idea of the verse;
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