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
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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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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