Analysis of Fertile Eyes
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
| Scheme | aBC xxax xxx xxx BC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 101 111111 11111 110111 0111 11011111 101101 111110 110011 01001101 0111111 1010010 11111101 111111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 379 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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