Analysis of Aux champs

Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)



Je me penche attendri sur les bois et les eaux,
Rêveur, grand-père aussi des fleurs et des oiseaux ;
J'ai la pitié sacrée et profonde des choses ;
J'empêche les enfants de maltraiter les roses ;
Je dis : N'effarez point la plante et l'animal ;
Riez sans faire peur, jouez sans faire mal.
Jeanne et Georges, fronts purs, prunelles éblouies,
Rayonnent au milieu des fleurs épanouies ;
J'erre, sans le troubler, dans tout ce paradis ;
Je les entends chanter, je songe, et je me dis
Qu'ils sont inattentifs, dans leurs charmants tapages,
Au bruit sombre que font en se tournant les pages
Du mystérieux livre où le sort est écrit,
Et qu'ils sont loin du prêtre et près de Jésus-Christ.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 11111111111 1111111111 111111110 11111111100 11111111 11101111 1101111 1101111010 1111111111 1111111 11111111110 1111101011 11111111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 700
Words 117
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 515
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 04, 2023

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Victor Marie Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He was buried in the Panthéon. more…

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