Pauca meae

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Pauca meae is a deeply personal and elegiac section of Victor Hugo’s poetry collection *Les Contemplations*, in which he mourns the death of his daughter Léopoldine.

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Pauca meae canonical 2

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instanceOf elegiac poetry
poetry cycle
section of a poetry collection
author Victor Hugo
collectionBySameAuthor La Légende des siècles
Les Châtiments
countryOfOrigin France
dedicatedTo Léopoldine Hugo
followedBy En marche
form metrical poetry
genre elegy
lyric poetry
hasTitleInLatin Pauca meae
inspiredBy death of Léopoldine Hugo
language French
literaryMovement Romanticism
mainTheme death of a child
father–daughter relationship
grief
mourning
meter French alexandrine
notablePoem Demain, dès l’aube
Elle avait pris ce pli
Ô souvenirs! printemps! aurore!
numberOfPoems 17
partOf Les Contemplations
positionInCollection book 4 of Les Contemplations
precededBy Les luttes et les rêves
publicationYear 1856
subjectOf literary criticism
titleMeaningInEnglish A few [verses] for my own
workPeriod exile of Victor Hugo

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Les Contemplations hasPart Pauca meae