Analysis of Hier Au Soir

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



Hier, le vent du soir, dont le souffle caresse,
Nous apportait l'odeur des fleurs qui s'ouvrent tard ;
La nuit tombait ; l'oiseau dormait dans l'ombre épaisse.
Le printemps embaumait, moins que votre jeunesse ;
Les astres rayonnaient, moins que votre regard.

Moi, je parlais tout bas. C'est l'heure solennelle
Où l'âme aime à chanter son hymne le plus doux.
Voyant la nuit si pure et vous voyant si belle,
J'ai dit aux astres d'or : Versez le ciel sur elle !
Et j'ai dit à vos yeux : Versez l'amour sur nous !


Scheme ABAAB CACCX
Poetic Form
Metre 100111100110 11111111 11111111 01011111 11111101 11111111 1111111011 1111111111 11111110111 11111111011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 513
Words 89
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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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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