This is an analysis of the poem Les Morts that begins with:
En ces heures de soir où sous la brume épaisse
Le ciel voilé s'efface et lentement s'endort, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111111 01110110010 11110011110 111101 111101111001100 1101011101110 011110111110 10011011 1111001101010 1111011100110 11001111010 111110 1010111111111 11101111 11011111010101 11111110 110111011110 101111111010 1101010101110 1100110 101111111111 1011100101110 1101001111110 11111101 10011101010 101111111110 1110111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; et, nous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word autres is repeated.
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- summary of Les Morts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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