This is an analysis of the poem Les Morts that begins with:

O morts ! dans vos tombeaux vous dormez solitaires,
Et vous ne portez plus le fardeau des misères...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XaXbXX XcdXeb XbXXfX cdXgXh XXhXXX iXXXXX XXXiXd XXXXdX XaXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XbhXXX XXgXhX XXXXXX XfXXXj XXeXfX XXbXXX XjXXXX XXXXXX ffeaXX XkXfXj XXXXXX XXXXXX XfXXbd XcXXXX kkgXXg bXXXXX XiXXjX XXXdXX bXdXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101101000 1111101010110 011110 110111101100 010001100010 001010 10001111110 111100111101 110110 111001111011 110011111110 11100 01011000101 111110111011 11011 111011110100 1110010010010 110011 101110101010 11010111010 11100 1101011010 111011110111 110011 111100111111 1101001101001 11110 11110011111 11010111 1110101 101101101111 1101011111011 1101 111101110 11111111 11010 11101110011 101101101100 11001 11011010111 1111110010 101010 1011111111 1111111111011 11011 1111110111111 111100110111 1111101 01010110100 110010111000 111010 1110111010 1111011001 11110 1111010101000 11010011101 11110 11110010111 11010011010 010001 1010010 111110 101110 11011 101101 11110 1100100 101000 1010011 11110 11110 1111 1101100 1010111 111001 100011 11011 111100 1010 11110 111001 11110 110011 101010 1010110 101111 011010 11101 11110 10111 11011 101111 010110 100111 1111 1110001 101100011100 101110100110 1010110110 111100101111 11110111011 11111111010 1011111000110 1111000100100 10110011010 111000111110 1110111110011 111111110100 111010110110 11111011010 110111010 10111011110 110110111111 11111111010 11101101110 1101101101110 110101100101 10111111110 1111101010 1001111001 1110111111 11101110110 1100111110 111101100001 10110111010 110101110010 1111001110 1011011000110 100101111100 1111111110010 110011111010 1110110001 1100101010 10000111001 1101010110 1010101010100 1111110110 11101010111 1011111110 1010111110 11010111110 100101100011 1111111 110101110011 111101111 11110111110 111011101110 111100110100 111101110010 1110011111 110111101 110101110011 110101011 1111011100 1111001111 1011110111111 11101101100 100101010110 1011110111 1011101011 111111 1110011111 1111111110 101110111010 111111111110 1111110100 1101011010 0111101001 11110011010 11001011001 1110011010 111111010 111011101 111111010 100110011010 101011010011100 101101101010 111110100 0111101110 1100111111100 110110111101 01001011100 01110111010 11100101100 111001011011 101101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, de, la, sa, nous, le, et, leur, pour, vos are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, quand, la are repeated.

    The author used the same words clameur, tous, priez at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es, le, livre, bres are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Morts;
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  • history of its creation;
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