Analysis of The Season Of Loves

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



By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of troubled sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.

Your head is as tiny as mine
The nearby sea reigns with spring
Over the summers of your fragile form
And here one burns bundles of ermine.

In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience

Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants


Scheme Axbx xcxd xxbx xcAxdx
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 001111101 11110100100 1111010110 11111011 0111111 1001011101 011110110 001000100 11101 1101001100 1101110100 10100101110 101110110 10111 0010100101 110101110 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 589
Words 114
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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