This is an analysis of the poem Ronsard, J'Ai Vu L'Orgueil Des Colosses Antiques that begins with:

Ronsard, j'ai vu l'orgueil des colosses antiques,
Les théâtres en rond ouverts de tous côtés, ...

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: 1011110110001 111110011 11001111101 11101011100 11111001110100 111110010101 111110111010 1111101100100 1111110110011 01100010101 1111111111111 1110111111 110010011101 01111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, s, j'ai, vu, de, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, j'ai are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Ronsard, J'Ai Vu L'Orgueil Des Colosses Antiques;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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