Poem Analysis of Doulcin, Quand Quelquefois Je Vois Ces Pauvres Filles by Joachim du Bellay for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Doulcin, Quand Quelquefois Je Vois Ces Pauvres Filles that begins with:

Doulcin, quand quelquefois je vois ces pauvres filles
Qui ont le diable au corps, ou le semblent avoir,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 10110011111010 110111101010 1100111110 1111010110100 11111111110010 10101111010 111111111110 1111111011100 110000101111 1101111001111 1011111111110 1111111100110 11111010101 1101111111001
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
Average number of words per stanza: 33
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; quand, je are repeated.
The author used the same word quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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