Poem Analysis of A L'Ambitieux Et Avare Ennemi Des Bonnes Lettres by Joachim du Bellay for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem A L'Ambitieux Et Avare Ennemi Des Bonnes Lettres that begins with:

Serf de Faveur, esclave d'Avarice,
Tu n'eus jamais sur toi-même pouvoir, ...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa XXX XXX X
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: rondeau
Metre: 101010100 11101111110 1111111110 11011101110 111011001 1111110010 011010111 1111101110 1011011100 1110010110 11011100 11111110111 01101111011 10111011111 10101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
Average number of words per stanza: 21
Amount of lines: 15
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.

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A L'Ambitieux Et Avare Ennemi Des Bonnes Lettres by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

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