Analysis of Liberty

Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)



On my school notebooks
On my desk and on the trees
On the sands of snow
I write your name

On the pages I have read
On all the white pages
Stone, blood, paper or ash
I write your name

On the images of gold
On the weapons of the warriors
On the crown of the king
I write your name

On the jungle and the desert
On the nest and on the brier
On the echo of my childhood
I write your name

On all my scarves of blue
On the moist sunlit swamps
On the living lake of moonlight
I write your name

On the fields, on the horizon
On the birds’ wings
And on the mill of shadows
I write your name

On each whiff of daybreak
On the sea, on the boats
On the demented mountaintop
I write your name

On the froth of the cloud
On the sweat of the storm
On the dense rain and the flat
I write your name

On the flickering figures
On the bells of colors
On the natural truth
I write your name

On the high paths
On the deployed routes
On the crowd-thronged square
I write your name

On the lamp which is lit
On the lamp which isn’t
On my reunited thoughts
I write your name

On a fruit cut in two
Of my mirror and my chamber
On my bed, an empty shell
I write your name

On my dog, greathearted and greedy
On his pricked-up ears
On his blundering paws
I write your name

On the latch of my door
On those familiar objects
On the torrents of a good fire
I write your name

On the harmony of the flesh
On the faces of my friends
On each outstretched hand
I write your name

On the window of surprises
On a pair of expectant lips
In a state far deeper than silence
I write your name

On my crumbled hiding-places
On my sunken lighthouses
On my walls and my ennui
I write your name

On abstraction without desire
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name

And for the want of a word
I renew my life
For I was born to know you
To name you


Scheme xxxA bcxA xdxA xexA fxxA xxxA xxxA xxxA ddxA xxxA xbxA fexA gxxA xxeA xxxA hxxA chgA exxA xxff
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1110101 10111 1111 1010111 110110 111011 1111 1010011 101010100 101101 1111 10100010 10101010 1010111 1111 111111 10111 1010111 1111 10110010 1011 010111 1111 11111 101101 1001010 1111 101101 101101 1011001 1111 1010010 101110 101001 1111 1011 10011 10111 1111 101111 10111 110101 1111 101101 11100110 1111101 1111 1111010 11111 111001 1111 101111 1101010 101010110 1111 10100101 1010111 11011 1111 10101010 10110101 001110110 1111 11101010 111010 11101010 1111 101001010 11010 101011 1111 0101101 10111 1111111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,760
Words 380
Sentences 2
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 76
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

1:54 min read
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Paul Eluard

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement. more…

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