Analysis of Five Haiku
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
The wind
Undecided
Rolls a cigarette of air
The mute girl talks:
It is art's imperfection.
This impenetrable speech.
The motor car is truly launched:
Four martyrs' heads
Roll under the wheels.
Ah! a thousand flames, a fire,
The light, a shadow!
The sun is following me.
A feather gives to a hat
A touch of lightness:
The chimney smokes.
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
| Metre | 01 010 100111 0111 111010 1010001 01011101 1101 11001 10101010 0101 0111001 0101101 01110 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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