Analysis of Dieu fait les questions pour que l'enfant réponde

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



Dieu fait les questions pour que l'enfant réponde.

' Les deux bêtes les plus gracieuses du monde,
Le chat et la souris, se haïssent. Pourquoi ?
Explique-moi cela, Jeanne. ' Non sans effroi
Devant l'énormité de l'ombre et du mystère,
Jeanne se mit à rire. ' Eh bien ? - Petit grand-père,
je ne sais pas. jouons. ' Et Jeanne repartit :
' Vois-tu, le chat c'est gros, la souris c'est petit.
- Eh bien ? ' Et Jeanne alors, en se grattant la tête,
Reprit : ' Si la souris était la grosse bête,
À moins que le bon Dieu là-haut ne se fâchât,
Ce serait la souris qui mangerait le chat. '


Scheme A AXBBBAAAAAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 111111111 0111101111 11101111 111111111 1111111110111 11111111 110111110110 11111111111 1111011111 110111111111 111101101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 591
Words 111
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 11
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 204
Words per stanza (avg) 57
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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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