Toi Qui De Rome Émerveillé Contemples by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Toi Qui De Rome Émerveillé Contemples that begins with:

Toi qui de Rome émerveillé contemples
L'antique orgueil, qui menaçait les cieux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aaX
  • 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: 110110100 101011011 110111100 11111101110 1110110110 110101100 1001011100 11101110100 10110111 1101011 1110011100 110010101 10111101 1000110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ces, jour are repeated.

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

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

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