This is an analysis of The Degenerate Gallants by Victor Marie Hugo.

[HERNANI, Act I., March, 1830.]

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddddeeaaffaaffee
  • Stanza lengths: 1,22,
  • Metre: 1001111 1101111101 1101010110 1101000101 0101010101 1101101111 1101110111 1001011111 0111110111 1111010101 1111010111 1001110111 0111110111 1011110111 1111110101 0110011011 0101010001 1101111111 0101010111 10010011001 1111110101 1101010111 10010010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

they, and, to, of

Anaphora

they