Poem Analysis of Je Pressais Ton Bras Qui Tremble by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Je Pressais Ton Bras Qui Tremble that begins with:

Je pressais ton bras qui tremble ;
Nous marchions tous deux ensemble, ...

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Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXbX XXXbXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011110 11011010 1110110 111111 1100110 1010011 11011 1001111 11101110 0101111 1100110 1101100 1101011 1111 0111010 110101 101101 1101110 111011 1011010 11010 10111101 11111 110111
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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; vous is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Je Pressais Ton Bras Qui Tremble by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

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