N'Étant De Mes Ennuis La Fortune Assouvie by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem N'Étant De Mes Ennuis La Fortune Assouvie that begins with:

N'étant de mes ennuis la fortune assouvie,
Afin que je devinsse à moi-même odieux,...

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: 1011011010 1011110111110 10110101101 11111100111 11010111 11111110101101 11111111111 11111111111 11100111111111 01010110010 110100111100 1101111011 1111101111111 0111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • 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; de, et, que are repeated.

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

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