Analysis of More Strong Than Time
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;
Since it was given to me to hear on happy while,
The words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries,
Since I have seen you weep, and since I have seen you smile,
Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my eyes;
Since I have known above my forehead glance and gleam,
A ray, a single ray, of your star, veiled always,
Since I have felt the fall, upon my lifetime's stream,
Of one rose petal plucked from the roses of your days;
I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold.
Your flying wings may smite, but they can never spill
The cup fulfilled of love, from which my lips are wet;
My heart has far more fire than you can frost to chill,
My soul more love than you can make my soul forget
Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) |
Metre | 111111111111 111101011111 111111010111 010011110001 1111011111101 010111111100 1111110111111 1101110110111 111101110101 01010111111 11110101111 1111011010111 1111111011010 110111111101 110111111010 111111011111 110111111101 010111111111 1111110111111 111111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,072 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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