Analysis of A des âmes envolées

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



Ces âmes que tu rappelles,
Mon coeur, ne reviennent pas.
Pourquoi donc s'obstinent-elles,
Hélas ! à rester là-bas ?

Dans les sphères éclatantes,
Dans l'azur et les rayons,
Sont-elles donc plus contentes
Qu'avec nous qui les aimions ?

Nous avions sous les tonnelles
Une maison près Saint-Leu.
Comme les fleurs étaient belles !
Comme le ciel était bleu !

Parmi les feuilles tombées,
Nous courions au bois vermeil ;
Nous cherchions des scarabées
Sur les vieux murs au soleil ;

On riait de ce bon rire
Qu'Éden jadis entendit,
Ayant toujours à se dire
Ce qu'on s'était déjà dit ;

Je contais la Mère l'Oie ;
On était heureux, Dieu sait !
On poussait des cris de joie
Pour un oiseau qui passait.


Scheme AAAA AAAA ABAB ABAX CDCD XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111 11111 1111 111011 11111 11111 11111 11111 1100111 1101111 11111 10111 11111 11111 11111 1111101 111111 1111 1111 11111111 1111111 11111 111111 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 691
Words 115
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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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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