On Donne Les Degrés Au Savant Écolier by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On Donne Les Degrés Au Savant Écolier that begins with:

On donne les degrés au savant écolier,
On donne les états à l'homme de justice,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa XbbX 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: 1111101100 11111010 111100011 11110011010 11010111000 11100110110 111100010110 111111010 1011111000101 01011011101 11101111010 110011111010 111011100110 1010111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; on, donne, au, le are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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