Versification Course
Gain mastery in French versification using practical tools for rhyme, meter, and rhythm analysis. Learn to dissect classical and modern poems, create refined poetic lines, and compile professional dossiers to boost your skills in humanities research, teaching, and literary criticism. This course equips you with workflows, examples, and exercises for confident composition and critique.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This focused Versification Course equips you with essential tools to analyse and create French verse confidently. Master syllable counting, mute-e rules, various rhyme types, schemes, and richness levels, then use them on classic and modern poems. Benefit from clear step-by-step guides, annotated examples, and hands-on exercises to prepare professor-approved dossiers and write precise, intentional lines in traditional metres.
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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 pauses, enjambment, and key prosodic features.
- Compose formal French poetry lines by selecting meters, schemes, and precise rhymes.
- Build professor-ready dossiers through annotating excerpts and citing versification sources.
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