Analysis of The Spanish Lady’s Love
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
[HERNANI, ACT I.]
To mount the hills or scaffold, we go to-morrow:
Hernani, blame me not for this my boldness.
Art thou mine evil genius or mine angel?
I know not, but I am thy slave. Now hear me:
Go where thou wilt, I follow thee. Remain,
And I remain. Why do I thus? I know not.
I feel that I must see thee--see thee still--
See thee for ever. When thy footstep dies,
It is as if my heart no more would beat;
When thou art gone, I am absent from myself;
But when the footstep which I love and long for
Strikes on mine ear again--then I remember
I live, and feel my soul return to me.
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Metre | 111 110111011110 111111110 11110101110 11111111111 1111110101 01011111111 1111111111 111101111 1111111111 1111111011 1101111011 11110111010 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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