Analysis of Le matin (Morning)
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
Moriturus moriturae !
Le voile du matin sur les monts se déploie.
Vois, un rayon naissant blanchit la vieille tour ;
Et déjà dans les cieux s'unit avec amour,
Ainsi que la gloire à la joie,
Le premier chant des bois aux premiers feux du jour.
Oui, souris à l'éclat dont le ciel se décore ! -
Tu verras, si demain le cercueil me dévore,
Un soleil aussi beau luire à ton désespoir,
Et les mêmes oiseaux chanter la même aurore,
Sur mon tombeau muet et noir !
Mais dans l'autre horizon l'âme alors est ravie.
L'avenir sans fin s'ouvre à l'être illimité.
Au matin de l'éternité
On se réveille de la vie,
Comme d'une nuit sombre ou d'un rêve agité.
The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks
Old towers gleam white in the ray,
And already the glory so joyously seeks
The lark that's saluting the day.
Then smile away, man, at the heavens so fair,
Though, were you swept hence in the night,
From your dark, lonely tomb the owlets would stare
At the sun rising newly as bright.
But out of earth's trammels your soul would have flown
Where glitters Eternity's stream,
And you shall have wake 'midst pure glories unknown,
As sunshine disperses a dream.
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Metre | 11 0111111111 111011111 11111111011 111111 001111101111 11011101111 1110101111 101111111 1111111111 111111 111010111011 1111111 11111 1111111 1111111111 01101011101 11011001 0010010111 01101001 11011101011 10111001 1111010111 101101011 1111111111 11011 01111111001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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