Morel, Quand Quelquefois Je Perds Le Temps À Lire by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Morel, Quand Quelquefois Je Perds Le Temps À Lire that begins with:

Morel, quand quelquefois je perds le temps à lire
Ce que font aujourd'hui nos trafiqueurs d'honneurs, ...

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: 0111001110110 111101110010 111011010110 1011111101 1110111110001 101101010010 11010010101 101011110011 111110111 111100111011 110101001111 111101111100 1111101110110 11111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, qui are repeated.

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