This is an analysis of The Son In Old Age by Victor Marie Hugo.
Thy noble face, Regina, calls to mind
My poor lost little one, my latest born.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcddaecfgagXdfdfhddXiXhei
- Stanza lengths: 27,
- Metre: 1101010101 1111011101 11010101010 111001011001 1001010111 1101110100 1111011001 1101110111 1011110111 1111111110 1101011111 1111111101 1101111111 1011111111 1111111011 111101010100 1111111101 01100111110 1111010101 0101101111 0101110101 1111010011 1011011111 1101111101 1101010011 11011110101 10111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
my, it, and, i, him
Anaphora
i

