A La Fenêtre, Pendant La Nuit by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A La Fenêtre, Pendant La Nuit that begins with:

Les étoiles, points d'or, percent les branches noires ;
Le flot huileux et lourd décompose ses moires ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XbaXXX XbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111010 01101110110 1101 11011101011 110011111111 111100 11111001111 11011111011 111010 11110111011101 1111111110 01100 101101111101 11111011100111 0101110 101111111100 1101110111000 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, est, la, qu'il, et, il, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, me are repeated).

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  • summary of A La Fenêtre, Pendant La Nuit;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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