Maraud, Qui N'Es Maraud Que De Nom Seulement, by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Maraud, Qui N'Es Maraud Que De Nom Seulement, that begins with:

Maraud, qui n'es maraud que de nom seulement,
Qui dit que tu es sage, il dit la vérité :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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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: 011101101100 1111111111 1111011010 110101101 1010011111000 110011110 10111110 111100101000 111101101101 110110110011 111010110010 1101110110 111101101110 101100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, que, dit, qui, la are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).

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