This is an analysis of the poem La Fille De Jephté that begins with:

Voilà ce qu'ont chanté les filles d'Israël,
Et leurs pleurs ont coulé sur l'herbe du Carmel :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXbb bXXX XXXX Xcbb cXbX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111010 1111111001 1010010110 10110101110100 1011110110 110110110110 11101011111 01010111100 100110111110 100011110110 0110001011 111111010110 11110111010 110011110 0111010011 10110111011 1110111100 111110111 10111111011 110110111110 10110001100 11010110111 110010110110 11100101010 11111110101 11110001010 10111110110 111101110100 111110111011 101010100110 11011101011 11010110010 111011010100 111111110 1110101101 111010110011 1111110111111 1100110101111 111111010 100111110 1111001110101 111111111111101 1111110100101 11011101101 11111000101111 110111110111 11111111111 10111011010 111111110110 1111000101001 110111010110 11101111100 1111001111110 11110111111111 1111111111100010 111111110110 1110111110 101011100100 110001011101100 1111101011100 11110110110 110111011100 111110100111000 1100111111000 111011110111 1111101100110 11010111110 11110100011111 11100111010101 11111001001101 1111101010 10111110110 1111010111 11011011001101 1100111101100 111101011100 11110110100 1110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, de, il, et, les, ses, la, ', vos, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, ' are repeated.

    The author used the same words il, ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, ', re are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words yeux, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.

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  • summary of La Fille De Jephté;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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