Analysis of A Fleeting Glimpse Of A Village
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
How graceful the picture! the life, the repose!
The sunbeam that plays on the porchstone wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11001001001 01111011 00111100111 0011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 204 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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