This is an analysis of the poem Tu Dis Que Du Bellay Tient Réputation that begins with:
Tu dis que Du Bellay tient réputation,
Et que de ses amis à ne tient plus de compte :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa Xbb XaX
- 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: 1110101100 110110111101 1111111011111 111110010 10001111111100 11111111110101 1011011111110 1111111011010 11111111100011 111100111111 111011111101 10101111110 1111101111011 1111101111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- 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; de, ne, comme, il, faut are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word qui is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
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