This is an analysis of the poem Jephthah Judge Of Israel that begins with:

Have you not heard these many years ago,
Jeptha was judge of Israel?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXdXee XfgfhhX hXXfbXeeiiee jXjXeaaa XX kkggee cdefXeeXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,12,8,2,6,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110001 1011010 1111010111 0111101 1111 11 01101 1101 111110 111010111 11110101 11000100 01010111 01010100 1001 01 0111 111011 1011110110 010101110 11010100 0111010101 1010101000 1101 101 11011 11001 0111 1110100111 11110101 10111000 11011101 1111100 10111 11111 11011 1111101 11110111 11101000 1111 1101 1111 0101 10001 11000111 111011101 111100100 11101101 101010100 1111 11 1111 1101 111001 10110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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