Versification Course
Gain mastery in French versification through practical tools for rhyme, meter, and rhythm analysis. Learn to dissect classic and modern poems, create polished poetic lines, and compile professional dossiers to boost your humanities research, teaching, and literary criticism skills in a structured, hands-on course.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This focused French Versification Course equips you with essential tools to confidently analyze and create French verse. Master syllable counting, mute-e rules, various rhyme types, schemes, and richness levels, then apply them to both classical and modern poems. Benefit from clear step-by-step workflows, fully annotated examples, and guided practice exercises to develop professor-approved dossiers and produce precise, intentional lines in traditional poetic meters.
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Develop skills
- Analyze French rhymes by classifying masculine and feminine types plus rich and poor forms.
- Scan French verse accurately by counting syllables, marking caesurae, and spotting alexandrines.
- Describe poetic rhythm 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 by annotating excerpts and citing essential versification sources.
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