Analysis of The Quiet Rural Church
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
It was a humble church, with arches low,
The church we entered there,
Where many a weary soul since long ago
Had past with plaint or prayer.
Mournful and still it was at day's decline,
The day we entered there;
As in a loveless heart, at the lone shrine,
The fires extinguished were.
Scarcely was heard to float some gentlest sound,
Scarcely some low breathed word,
As in a forest fallen asleep, is found
Just one belated bird.
Scheme | ABAB CBCX DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101011101 011101 11001011101 111111 1001111101 011101 1001011011 0100100 10111111001 101111 10010100111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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