Analysis of A Storm Simile

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



See, where on high the moving masses, piled
By the wind, break in groups grotesque and wild,
Present strange shapes to view;
Oft flares a pallid flash from out their shrouds,
As though some air-born giant 'mid the clouds
Sudden his falchion drew.


Scheme AABCCB
Poetic Form Boy Named Sue 
Sestain
Metre 1111010101 1011010101 101111 1101011111 1111110101 10111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 249
Words 45
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 195
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 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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