This is an analysis of Then, Most, I Smile by Victor Marie Hugo.

Late it is to look so proud,
Daisy queen! come is the gloom…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cccX bXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1000111 1011001 0010101 1010111 1010101 11100101 1010101 10101110 1111101 1010101 1110101 1010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12