Analysis of ‘You Rise the Water Unfolds’
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Scheme | XX XXX XXX XAX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 1101010 11101111 111111 0011110 1110110001011 110101101101 1110101001 1101 10010111011 11101010 10110101001001 1 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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