Tomorrow, At Dawn by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tomorrow, At Dawn that begins with:

Tomorrow, at dawn, at the hour when the countryside whitens,
I will set out. You see, I know that you wait for me....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xabb aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110101010110 1011111111111 10110101011010 1111001101 1010111111 10100111011 0101111111 1001011100101 101110101011 101011010110 11101101111 00101101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, my, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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