Comte, Qui Ne Fis Onc Compte De La Grandeur by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Comte, Qui Ne Fis Onc Compte De La Grandeur that begins with:

Comte, qui ne fis onc compte de la grandeur,
Ton Du Bellay n'est plus : ce n'est plus qu'une souche...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XaX
  • 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: 11111110101 101011111101 110110111111 1111011010010 11100111110 11001110111 10110111111 1111011101110 110100100110 11111011100 100011110011 111110111 111111010101 111011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; de, plus, cris are repeated.

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