This is an analysis of the poem A Ronsard that begins with:

Ô maître des charmeurs de l'oreille, ô Ronsard,
J'admire tes vieux vers, et comment ton génie...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXa 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: 111001010 1011111011 1101111110100 110111100010 111111111111 1110101 1111110 1110111111 110111111111 101111100001 10111011010 111100111100 11110011111 11101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; et, tu, les are repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Ronsard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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