Je N'Ai Jamais Pensé Que Cette Voûte Ronde by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Je N'Ai Jamais Pensé Que Cette Voûte Ronde that begins with:

Je n'ai jamais pensé que cette voûte ronde
Couvrît rien de constant : mais je veux désormais, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XaX 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: 1111011111 11010111110 111110111110 1101111111111 11011011101 01011011101001 11110101011 11101100001 11110101110 1010111110 110011110 11111111010110 1111011001110 111110011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, que, de, et, le are repeated.

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