Bêtise De La Guerre by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bêtise De La Guerre that begins with:

Ouvrière sans yeux, Pénélope imbécile,
Berceuse du chaos où le néant oscille, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011110 1001010110 1110111100 110110110 10011101 1010111100 11010111111 111111111 1010110101 011111111 11100100001 11010110100 11111111110111 11100111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; o, tu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.

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

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