Analysis of Tomorrow, At Dawn
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
Tomorrow, at dawn, at the hour when the countryside whitens,
I will set out. You see, I know that you wait for me.
I will go by the forest, I will go by the mountain.
I can no longer remain far from you.
I will walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Seeing nothing of outdoors, hearing no noise
Alone, unknown, my back curved, my hands crossed,
Sorrowed, and the day for me will be as the night.
I will not look at the gold of evening which falls,
Nor the distant sails going down towards Harfleur,
And when I arrive, I will place on your tomb
A bouquet of green holly and of flowering heather.
Scheme | AXXX AAXX ABXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 0111101010101 1111111111111 11110101111010 1111001111 1111111111 10101111011 0101111111 10011111101 111110111011 10101101011 01101111111 00111100110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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