This is an analysis of the poem Jeanne D'Arc that begins with:
The land was broken in despair,
The princes quarrelled in the dark,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaX cdccd XeXXe fbffXXadaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 010100001 1111010101 0101111011 110111 11010101 11111101 1101111011 1101010001 110101 11111101 111111010 111110100 0111011100 0101010 11010111 11010101 0101010110 0101110111 110111 11010111 11011101 0101010101 0101100101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o, you, and are repeated.
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- summary of Jeanne D'Arc;
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