Versification Course
This course equips you with essential tools to master French versification, covering rhyme analysis, meter scanning, and rhythm description. You will dissect classical and modern poems, create refined verses in traditional forms, and compile professional dossiers to enhance your humanities research, teaching, and literary analysis skills.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills in French versification through this focused course. Learn to count syllables, apply mute-e rules, identify rhyme varieties, schemes, and richness levels. Apply these to both classical and modern poetry with clear step-by-step guides, annotated examples, and hands-on exercises that prepare you to produce professor-approved analyses and craft precise lines in classic meters.
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Develop skills
- Analyze French rhymes by classifying masculine and feminine types along with rich and poor forms.
- Scan French verse accurately by counting syllables, marking caesurae, and spotting alexandrines.
- Describe poetic rhythms clearly using pauses, enjambment, and key prosodic features.
- Compose formal French poetry lines by selecting meters, schemes, and crafting precise rhymes.
- Build professor-ready dossiers through annotating excerpts and citing essential versification sources.
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