Au Bois by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Au Bois that begins with:

Nous étions, elle et moi, dans cet avril charmant
De l'amour qui commence en éblouissement. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111010 0101011100 10111010 11001110010 010111111111 11010110010 1100101101110 0110001101100 1101111111101 10111110011 10111111101 10011011001 11011111101 11111011110 110010011100 110110110010 11110011110 1111111110 1101001111 10111011110 11110101111 10100111011 011101111 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; dans, le, les, nous, et are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Au Bois;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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