This is an analysis of the poem Nostalgia And Complaint Of The Grandparents that begins with:

Les morts
C’est sous terre; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXX cdedXXdaXXfg dXfdXeehhbbg diciXjjkkffg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 111 011 1 10 11001011 111010 0111110 10000010 111111 10110 0101110 11010111110 11001011 10110 01 11011101 11110110 10100 1101011 1101011 11111 1101 101101 10010101 10101 1101101 0111 011101 0100010 1111101 110100011 100101 101110 1111 1111011 0110101 1010110 10010101 011101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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