This is an analysis of the poem Victor Hugo that begins with:

Heart of France for a hundred years,
Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Ababbccddbeffegfgf gfgfghaahicijjddi kllklmmlghgeen gbgbnahaAoao
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,17,14,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100 100100111 10100111 10100101 11100101 11100101 11110111 10100111 10100101 100101 11100101 1010100101 10100101 10100101 11101111 11111011 100110101 11011011 11100101 1110101101 11100101 101100101 10010101 1011111 10100101 1111001001 110101 111001001 10101101 1011010111 110100110 100100110 1101 10010111 10010010111 11110111 01100111 10110101 100100111 11101111 1011011 0110101 1001101 101111 1010001 100100101 0101010101 100101 11001011100 11110101 010101101 11101 111101 100100 1001111 111111 11101 10110100 10100111011 10011010111 100101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 543
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; him, her, to, for, and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word you 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 her is repeated).

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