Analysis of Open Door
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it’s a game,
The angels of bouquets grant the flowers a change of hue.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11101 11111111101 01010110100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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