This is an analysis of the poem La Mort De Jeanne D'Arc that begins with:

Silence au camp ! La vierge est prisonnière ;
Par un injuste arrêt Bedfort croit la flétrir :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXaXXXXXXbbXcXXXaXdXeXXdafXXXXdXXabacXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXggXaXXdaXXaXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXaaXXaddXdXXfaXXXXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 119,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101100 1110110111 111111110 10111111 11001010110 111001101 1101100 110100110110 111101100010 111111110100 1101011010 11110101110 111110110010 1100100 100111110 0100111111 1101011100 11101101011 110110110010 011111110 11110101 10110110 111110110110 11111111110 111111 1110110 11111010111 11101110 1111011 11101110 1011100111100 110111111 111011 11010010110 11101001 11010111 10011001010 11101110 11110111 1101111010 01101011010 11101101111 11010110010 110011 101110110101 111111010 1101101111 10111011011 111110 111100 1101111 1111110 01111110 101110 1011111111 11100110 11011111 1011110 101110 111100 11111011 1111001110100 010010110100 111011100 111100101110 100101110011 1011001111 111011011111 1011101101111 10101111100 10100100 1100010101 10111110101 11011010 1010110110 11010110010 1101111011 01011010110 101101110 11110 1110111010 1010010 1011011 11100111100 1011111111 11011111110 10101010110 1011011110 11110110 111110 011100 11110001 10111110011 11001110110 11110100110 111010111101 1100100 1110110101 101101111110 1110111101 11010101011 110111111110 1010110110 1011101101110 110100110011 111011111 11100111100 110110110111 101110110110 111100110111 11111011010 111010 111110111100 11110101011 11011001001 1000111101100 11111111110 111110110 11011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5027
  • Average number of words per stanza: 948
  • Amount of lines: 119
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, un, et, d, elle, te, vous, du, s, de are repeated.

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

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

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