This is an analysis of the poem Morts De Quatre-Vingt-Douze (Dead Of '92) that begins with:

Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze et de Quatre-vingt-treize,
Qui, pâles du baiser fort de la liberté,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXX XXX b Xacc aabb XaX XcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110111 1101010110 101110100111 11110101100 1100111110 111110101110 1101110110010 111111110 1101101011 10101010110 11001111011 11101010110 111111111 010100110001 0101011 1101011101 1100110100 11011101 1111110111 101010100 1111010100 11011101011 01011011011 1111100101 1010101010100 11001011011 11110100010 110010110101 11010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, les, morts, in, of, dead are repeated.

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

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