A Son Livre by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Son Livre that begins with:

Mon livre (et je ne suis sur ton aise envieux),
Tu t'en iras sans moi voir la Cour de mon Prince....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XaXX XXX 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: 1111111111110 1111111111011 1111111011111 101101111011 111001111110 1010101101110 11110100011 101011111100 1010111011110 1110101111 111110111101 10101011101 10111111000 11011110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, qu'il are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word souhaite at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Son Livre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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