This is an analysis of the poem À Victor Hugo that begins with:
Quatre-vingts ans déjà, qu’au ciel de la Patrie,
Ployante sous le joug et par le fer meurtrie....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXcX XXXb X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XcXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101100 1010111011 11111010110 11010110110 1111110101 010010110010 011100101101 1110011011 1111111110 10110110010 101101010 10110011110 1110111110 1101110101 10110110011 1001110111101 1011001110 101101111111 100110111110 11110100111 1110110111 1111010111 1011100111 110101110 111011100011 111011111010 010010110111 1111001110 1010101110100 10110110011 110101100100 10110101110 101010111110 111111111 111111101 1100100101 101010111010 011111110 1011101101000 101101111 1 101011101110 1011110110 11110111100 0111111110 1011101111 11111110010 11101110111 1101011101 11001111111 11110110110 1010101110111 101101101010 111100111110 101111111110 1111110001 11100111110 111101010 0101001110 1110110110 1100101111 11111110011 11011111100 1001101111010 1011111110 11111110011 11110001110 100100110110 0111101100 1111101100 11111110110 111111011110 11000110110
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, o, l, la, des, et, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comme, o are repeated.
The author used the same words sur, hugo, car at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of À Victor Hugo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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