Tu Ne Me Vois Jamais, Pierre, Que Tu Ne Die by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tu Ne Me Vois Jamais, Pierre, Que Tu Ne Die that begins with:

Tu ne me vois jamais, Pierre, que tu ne die
Que j'étudie trop, que je fasse l'amour,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaX aXX XXX
  • 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: 11111100111111 111111110 11101011010 111111110 11111011110 1111011010111 10010101111101 1011100111 111111101111 011010101111 11110011110 111011111110 1110011111 110001101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; que, me are repeated.

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

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