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

Un jour que l’océan gonflé par la tempête,
Réunissant les eaux de ses fleuves divers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXbcXXXXXaXXabXXXXXbXXXXXdXXdaXXXaXeXXXXXXXXfXXeXXXXXXfXaXfXXXaXXXXXXXaXaXXfcXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111 10011011010 10110010110 011100 11100011100 1101101001 11111011100 110111 1011011001 11001010111 1011010 01010110 11101101000 111011101110 1110101001110 1101100111 11101111 11011110011 1111111101 1111001111 11111011 1101111010 11001111 10001101 111010111 11101111 11101111 1101111010 101110110 101011100 1101111001 1100010111 01110011 1011010111 11111010111 110110111100 110110110100 10111100 11011010111 1100001110 111111101111100 11111111101 1111010 110010 10110100 10111100 101111100 1010110 1010110 10110011 1111010 10111110 110101101 11101100 10011101100 101111110 1000110111 1111100 1011110101 11010110011 1110 11001011111 1111001100100 100110110011 11100110 1001011110 11110011100 01110011001 111011100 1100100 11110010 01010110 1110111 11101001 11101101110 010110110011 1101100 10011110001 1011011 111110 11101101 101101110 110011110010 1111100 11111111010 11111011101 110110110100 111101111010 111010111110 110110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3628
  • Average number of words per stanza: 698
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; de, les, des, c, est, dans, la, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words l, couvrez, chante, que are repeated.

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

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