Analysis of To Marc Chagall
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 110110001 01010101 11010111 0101011 011011101 1001101 101101 0110011 01001010 0001011 010011 011101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 4, 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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