Analysis of My Happiest Dream
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals streaming in their veils,
Within the fane past altar rails,
Green palms in hand.
My darkest moods will always clear
When I can fancy children near,
With rosy lips a-laughing--dear,
Light-dancing band!
Enchanting vision, too, displayed,
That of a sweet and radiant maid,
Who knows not why she is afraid,--
Love's yet unseen!
Another--rarest 'mong the rare--
To see the gaze of chosen fair
Return prolonged and wistful stare
Of eager een.
But--dream o'er all to stir my soul,
And shine the brightest on the roll,
Is when a land of tyrant's toll
By sword is rid.
I say not dagger--with the sword
When Right enchampions the horde,
All in broad day--so that the bard
May sing the victor with the starred
Bayard and Cid!
Scheme | AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHIIJJH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 11111101 1110011 01011101 1101 1101111 11110101 11010101 1101 01010101 110101001 11111101 1101 01010101 11011101 01010101 1101 111011111 01010101 1101111 1111 11110101 11101 10111101 11010101 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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