Analysis of Épitaphe de Jean Valjean
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,
Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange ;
La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva,
Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111011111011 1111111111 11111111 11111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 198 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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