Versification Course
This course equips you with essential tools to master French versification, covering rhyme analysis, meter scanning, rhythm description, verse composition, and dossier preparation. Apply skills to classical and modern poems to enhance your humanities research, teaching, and literary criticism with confidence and precision.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills in French versification through mastering syllable counting, mute-e rules, various rhyme types, schemes, and richness levels. Analyze classical and modern poems using clear workflows, annotated examples, and guided exercises to compose accurate lines in traditional meters and prepare professional dossiers.
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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 using explanations of 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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