Analysis of Childhood
Victor-Marie Hugo 1802 ( Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
The small child sang; the mother, outstretched on the
low bed,
With anguish moaned, - fair Form pain should possess
not long;
For, ever nigher, Death hovered around her head:
I hearkened there this moan, and heard even there
that song.
The child was but five years, and, close to the lattice,
aye
Made a sweet noise with games and with his laughter
bright;
And the wan mother, aside this being the livelong day
Carolling joyously, coughed hoarsely all the night.
The mother went to sleep 'mong them that sleep
alway;
And the blithe little lad began anew to sing...
Sorrow is like a fruit: God doth not therewith weigh
Earthward the branch strong yet but for the
blossoming.
Scheme | ABXCBXC XXXDED XXFEAF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110100110 11 1101111101 11 11011100101 1111101101 11 011111011010 1 10111101110 1 0011001110011 1111101 0101111111 1 001101010111 10110111111 10111110 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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