Analysis of The Absence
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
I speak to you across cities
I speak to you across plains
My mouth is upon your pillow
Both faces of the walls come meeting
My voice discovering you
I speak to you of eternity
O cities memories of cities
Cities wrapped in our desires
Cities come early cities come lately
Cities strong and cities secret
Plundered of their master's builders
All their thinkers all their ghosts
Fields pattern of emerald
Bright living surviving
The harvest of the sky over our earth
Feeds my voice I dream and weep
I laugh and dream among the flames
Among the clusters of the sun
And over my body your body spreads
The sheet of it's bright mirror.
| Scheme | AX X BX C ADCXDX XBXXXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 11110110 1111011 11101110 110101110 1101001 111110100 110100110 101010010 1011010110 10101010 10111010 1110111 110110 110010 01010110101 1111101 11010101 01010101 0101101101 0111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 623 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 2, 1, 6, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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