Après La Bataille by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Après La Bataille that begins with:

Mon père, ce héros au sourire si doux,
Suivi d'un seul housard qu'il aimait entre tous...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011 1011101010101 1111011111 1001001110 011001111011 1101011010111 111000111 1111010101011 1110111110 111010111101 111101101 110111011 111111111 1111010101 111011011101 101100101011 111111111001 011011101010 11010111110 11101011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 935
  • Average number of words per stanza: 186
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, ', re, le are repeated.

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

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