Analysis of Au bois

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



Nous étions, elle et moi, dans cet avril charmant
De l'amour qui commence en éblouissement.
Ô souvenirs ! ô temps ! heures évanouies !
Nous allions, le coeur plein d'extases inouïes,
Ensemble dans les bois, et la main dans la main.
Pour prendre le sentier nous quittions le chemin,
Nous quittions le sentier pour marcher dans les herbes.
Le ciel resplendissait dans ses regards superbes ;
Elle disait : Je t'aime ! et je me sentais dieu.

Parfois, près d'une source, on s'asseyait un peu.
Que de fois j'ai montré sa gorge aux branches d'arbre !
Rougissante et pareille aux naïades de marbre,
Tu baignais tes pieds nus et blancs comme le lait.
Puis nous nous en allions rêveurs. Il me semblait,
En regardant autour de nous les pâquerettes,
Les boutons-d'or joyeux, les pervenches secrètes
Et les frais liserons d'une eau pure arrosés,
Que ces petites fleurs étaient tous les baisers
Tombés dans le trajet de ma bouche à ta bouche
Pendant que nous marchions ; et la grotte farouche
Et la ronce sauvage et le roc chauve et noir,
Envieux, murmuraient : Que va dire ce soir
Diane aux chastes yeux, la déesse étoilée,
En voyant toute l'herbe au fond du bois foulée ?


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 11010111 01111 11011111 010111111111 11011101 1101110111 01111011 1111111111 111111111 111111111101 11111111 1111111101 1111111111 11111111 11111111 111111111 11111111 1110111111 101111111 11110101111 1111111 0111111111 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,185
Words 197
Sentences 14
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 15
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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