Ô Que Tu Es Heureux, Si Tu Connais Ton Heur by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ô Que Tu Es Heureux, Si Tu Connais Ton Heur that begins with:

Ô que tu es heureux, si tu connais ton heur,
D'être échappé des mains de cette gent cruelle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aab XXb
  • 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: 11110111011 11110111 11111010010 1101111110 1111101110 0111111111100 1001111100 01100100001 1110011001 010011111110 111110110110 110101111011 111111101100 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la, n'y are repeated.

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

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