Analysis of Nearer To Us
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
| Scheme | ABCDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010100 0101010 0100010 1110011 1010111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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