Je Ne Commis Jamais Fraude Ni Maléfice by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Je Ne Commis Jamais Fraude Ni Maléfice that begins with:

Je ne commis jamais fraude ni maléfice,
Je ne doutai jamais des points de notre foi,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXa 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: 111110101110 11111010110101 1111110001 1111101010 1111010010 11111101111111 111100011111101 11101111010 111111110010 111011111110 010110110100 11111011100 110111111101 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, et are repeated.

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

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