This is an analysis of the poem Ne T'Ébahis, Ronsard, La Moitié De Mon Âme that begins with:

Ne t'ébahis, Ronsard, la moitié de mon âme,
Si de ton Du Bellay France ne lit plus rien,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXa 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: 111010110011 101010111111 1110101100 1111011010 011011111011 11110011101 1010101011 010011111 111110110101 101111010010 010101101101 1101001110 11100011010 111010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; cela, de are repeated.

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