Analysis of Oh, Why Not Be Happy?
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
[RUY BLAS, Act II.]
Oh, why not be happy this bright summer day,
'Mid perfume of roses and newly-mown hay?
Great Nature is smiling--the birds in the air
Sing love-lays together, and all is most fair.
Then why not be happy
This bright summer day,
'Mid perfume of roses
And newly-mown hay?
The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,
Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;
The violets are blooming and nestling their heads
In richest profusion on moss-coated beds.
Then why not be happy
This bright summer day,
When Nature is fairest
And all is so gay?
Scheme | x aabbCAxa ddeeCAxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11111011101 10111001011 11011001001 11101001111 111110 11101 101110 01011 011101111 11001011011 010011001011 01001011101 111110 11101 110110 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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