This is an analysis of the poem Gordes, Que Du Bellay Aime Plus Que Ses Yeux, that begins with:
Gordes, que Du Bellay aime plus que ses yeux,
Vois comme la nature, ainsi que du visage, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX 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: 10101011111 11110101010 10110011010 1111110110 1111111111100 11111011100 111011110 11101010011011 11111101110011 101110100010 11111100100 10110001101 1110110010 110111101111000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; que, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word qui is repeated.
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