Analysis of Lovely And Lifelike
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day’s dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
| Scheme | ABCDEDFGAH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 01101101 0100111 0011101 10011110 1001110011010 1001011010 01001110 010011010 10111011 0111001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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