Analysis of As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
| Scheme | axxxBxaxBxaxB x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111101111 01101101001011 11011111 110011101 0100101010 00100111001111 010101111001 1010001111101 0100101010 01011101011110 001011011 00101110010 0100101010 111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 601 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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