Quand Ce Brave Séjour, Honneur Du Nom Latin by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Quand Ce Brave Séjour, Honneur Du Nom Latin that begins with:

Quand ce brave séjour, honneur du nom Latin,
Qui borna sa grandeur d'Afrique et de la Bise,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX XXXX Xac Xcb
  • 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: 1111100110 110101101011 01111110110 1010111010 1001111010 1101001110 1010111110110 10100001010 1010111110 111111111 1011010001 110011101010 10001110110 110010100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • 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; de, qui are repeated.

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

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