Analysis of At The Window
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
I have not always had this certainty, this pessimism which reassures the best among us. There was
a time when my friends laughed at me. I was not the master of my words. A certain indifference, I
have not always known well what I wanted to say, but most often it was because I had nothing to
say. The necessity of speaking and the desire not to be heard. My life hanging only by a thread.
There was a time when I seemed to understand nothing. My chains floated on the water.
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic
creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination
enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The
language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh
of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing
could attempt to convince me of error.
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Metre | 11111110011001010101111 0111111111101011101001001 111111110111110110111101 100100110000101111111010101 11011111011011101010 110101111101110111111010 1011010101101001110010 011111110110010100101110 101111101110101101011101 111110000101111001011110 1011011110 |
Characters | 974 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 70 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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