Versification Course
Gain mastery in French versification through practical tools for rhyme, meter, and rhythm analysis. Delve into classical and modern poems, create refined poetic lines, and develop professional dossiers to enhance your humanities research, teaching, and literary criticism skills.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This focused French Versification Course equips you with essential tools to confidently analyze and create French poetry. Master syllable counting, mute-e rules, various rhyme types, schemes, and richness levels, applying them to both classical and contemporary works. Benefit from streamlined workflows, detailed annotated examples, and structured exercises to produce professor-approved dossiers and craft precise, intentional lines in traditional 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 by accurately counting syllables, marking caesurae, and spotting alexandrines.
- Describe poetic rhythms using explanations of pauses, enjambment, and key prosodic features.
- Compose formal French poetry lines by selecting meters, schemes, and crafting precise rhymes.
- Assemble professor-ready dossiers through annotating excerpts and referencing essential versification sources.
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