This is an analysis of the poem John Of Arc that begins with:

A Fragment.
In Fancy's realm I saw a teeming vale ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXbdcdc dXadefef aggadgdg bhhbihih accacdcd DAAD jccjakak DAADiaXX Xaaagdgd XaaXgdgd jkkjifhf XccXcfcf fXafgjgj hhhhadad dlldahaX hddiidid hbhbgmgm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 0101110101 0111011111 11011101010 1001010101 0111011101 1100111101 0101110101 1101011101 0101110111 010100111010 11010111001 1111010111 1101010101 01011001001 0101110101 0101010111 0111010011 0101110101 0101010111 010111001 0101011101 1101101101 0101110001 1111010101 0101110101 0101110111 0101001011 1111000100 1101110101 0101110101 0111010101 1111011001 1001010001 1001010101 1001010011 1100010101 0101010101 01011001101 010001001001 1001010101 10001010111 0101110101 1100010101 1101010001 1111111101 0101010101 011000010101 0101110101 1011010101 1101010101 0001011111 1100101111 10001010111 0101110101 1100010101 1101010001 1111110101 101010100101 11111001010 0001110111 10010010111 1001010101 1100010111 1101011101 1101010001 1111110101 11010010101 1001000101 11101010110 1100010001 0101010101 1101010101 1101010011 011010101 11011100011 1101011101 1011110101 0111111101 1001000101 11000010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101000101 011011001 101010111 1111010101 10111101001 1101110101 010101100001 1001010101 01010100101 01010010111 11100001101 1101010101 1001010101 0111010101 1101011101 0101101111 0101110101 0111010111 11001010101 0101011111 0101010101 01010100111 1001010101 1101010101 10010101001 0101110101 01010101010 11010111010 1001010001 11011100101 11011110101 1101000101 10111101001 11110101101 0111010101 1111011111 110010011111 1011110101 11001010111 1101111111 1110000101 010101101 111101 11010101 010111 01010111 110111 11010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, her, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, her, quickly, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word dismay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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