Analysis of Words In The Shadow
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
She said, 'I am wrong to want something more, it's true.
The hours go by very quietly just so.
You are there. I never takes my eyes off you.
In your eyes I see your thoughts as they come and go.
To watch you is a joy I have not yet got through.
No doubt it is still very charming of its kind!
I watch, for I know everything that annoys you.
So that nothing comes knocking when you're not inclined.
I make myself so small in my corner near you.
You are my great lion, I am your little dove.
I listen to your leaves, the peacful froufrou.
Sometimes I pick up your pen when it falls off.
Without a doubt I have you. Surely I see you.
Thinking is a wine on which the dreamers are drunk.
I know. But sometimes I'd like to be dreamed of too.
When you are like that, in your books, all evening, sunk.
No lifting your head or saying a word to me,
There is a shadow deep down in my loving heart.
For me to see you whole, it is necessary
To look at me a little, sometimes, on your part.'
Scheme | ABAB ACAC AXAX ADAD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111111110111 010111010011 11111011111 011111111101 111101111111 111111010111 11111101011 111011011101 11111011011 111110111101 110111011 01111111111 010111110111 101011101011 111011111111 111110111101 110111100111 11011101101 11111111100 111101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 966 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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