Tu T'Abuses, Belleau, Si Pour Être Savant by Joachim du Bellay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tu T'Abuses, Belleau, Si Pour Être Savant that begins with:

Tu t'abuses, Belleau, si pour être savant,
Savant et vertueux, tu penses qu'on te prise :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa aXXX XXX 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: 11000111101 011101101011 1111111100 111111111101 111010111101 10111110110 1001101100 1111001110110 110110011101 111011101 11111110001 111011100 111111110001 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; tu is repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase savant connects the lines.

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  • summary of Tu T'Abuses, Belleau, Si Pour Être Savant;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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