Analysis of Even When We Sleep
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake’s ripe fruit
Without laughter or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111110110 01110010111 0110111010 111001011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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