Analysis of After The Battle
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
MY father, hero of benignant mien,
On horseback visited the gory scene,
After the battle as the evening fell,
And took with him a trooper loved right well,
Because of bravery and presence bold.
The field was covered with the dead, all cold,
And shades of night were deepening : came a sound,
Feeble and hoarse, from something on the ground ;
It was a Spaniard of the vanquished force,
Who dragged himself with pain beside their course.
Wounded and bleeding, livid and half dead,
'Give me to drink - in pity, drink!' he said.
My father, touched, stretched to his follower now
A flask of rum that from his saddle-bow
Hung down : 'The poor soul - give him drink,' said he
But while the trooper prompt, obediently
Stooped towards the other, he of Moorish race
Pointed a pistol at my father's face,
And with a savage oath the trigger drew :
The hat flew off, a bullet passing through.
As swerved his charger in a backward stride,
'Give him to drink the same,' my father cried.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 111000101 1001010101 0111010111 0111000101 0111010111 01110100101 1001110101 1101010101 1101110111 1001010011 1111010111 11011111001 0111111101 1101111111 11010101000 10101011101 1001011101 0101010101 0111010101 1111000101 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 752 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 178 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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