Analysis of Chanson pour faire danser en rond les petits enfants

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

Grand bal sous le tamarin.
On danse et l'on tambourine.
Tout bas parlent, sans chagrin,
Mathurin à Mathurine,
Mathurine à Mathurin.

C'est le soir, quel joyeux train !
Chantons à pleine poitrine
Au bal plutôt qu'au lutrin.
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Découpe comme au burin,
L'arbre, au bord de l'eau marine,
Est noir sur le ciel serein.
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Dans le bois rôde Isengrin.
Le magister endoctrine
Un moineau pillant le grain.
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Broutant l'herbe brin à brin,
Le lièvre a dans la narine
L'appétit du romarin,
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Sous l'ormeau le pèlerin
Demande à la pèlerine
Un baiser pour un quatrain.
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Derrière un pli de terrain,
Nous entendons la clarine
Du cheval d'un voiturin.
Mathurin a Mathurine,
Mathurine a Mathurin.

Scheme abcaa daaAA abaAA aadAA caaAA aaaAA dbaAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100 1111101 111101 11 11 101111 111 1111111 101 101 11111 11111101 0111011 101 101 101111 011 11101 101 101 1111 0110111 11111 101 101 11011 1111 11111 101 101 1111101 11110 11111 101 101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 872
Words 143
Sentences 17
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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