Analysis of The Beggar’s Quatrain
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
But one weak child to guide his vision dim.
The hand which dealt him bread, in pity kind--
He'll never see; God sees it, though, for him.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 1111111101 0111110101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 185 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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