Analysis of Cri de guerre du mufti

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



En guerre les guerriers ! Mahomet ! Mahomet !
Les chiens mordent les pieds du lion qui dormait,
Ils relèvent leur tête infâme.
Ecrasez, ô croyants du prophète divin,
Ces chancelants soldats qui s'enivrent de vin,
Ces hommes qui n'ont qu'une femme !

Meure la race franque et ses rois détestés !
Spahis, timariots, allez, courez, jetez
A travers les sombres mêlées
Vos sabres, vos turbans, le bruit de votre cor,
Vos tranchants étriers, larges triangles d'or,
Vos cavales échevelées !

Qu'Othman, fils d'Ortogrul, vive en chacun de vous.
Que l'un ait son regard et l'autre son courroux.
Allez, allez, ô capitaines !
Et nous te reprendrons, ville aux dômes d'azur,
Molle Setiniah, qu'en leur langage impur
Les barbares nomment Athènes !


Scheme AAXBBX CCCDDC XCCDDC
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 1111111011 11111111 111111 1111111 111111 1111111111 11111 01011111 11011001111 1111101 1111 1101111111 11111011111 111 111111111 1111111 11111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 738
Words 116
Sentences 12
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 185
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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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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