Analysis of Dans ce jardin antique où les grandes allées

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



Dans ce jardin antique où les grandes allées
Passent sous les tilleuls si chastes, si voilées
Que toute fleur qui s'ouvre y semble un encensoir,
Où, marquant tous ses pas de l'aube jusqu'au soir,
L'heure met tour à tour dans les vases de marbre
Les rayons du soleil et les ombres de l'arbre,
Anges, vous le savez, oh ! comme avec amour,
Rêveur, je regardais dans la clarté du jour
Jouer l'oiseau qui vole et la branche qui plie,
Et de quels doux pensers mon âme était remplie,
Tandis que l'humble enfant dont je baise le front,
Avec son pas joyeux pressant mon pas moins prompt,
Marchait en m'entraînant vers la grotte où le lierre
Met une barbe verte au vieux fleuve de pierre !


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Poetic Form
Metre 11100111111 111111111 111111111 1111111111 1111111011 1110111111 11011111 111111111 111111111 111111111 11110111101 111111111 1111111101 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 698
Words 125
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 521
Words per stanza (avg) 125
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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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