Analysis of Uninterrupted Poetry

Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)



From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I’ll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I’ll end truly by finding myself
We’ll take possession of earth


Scheme ABCDEFGHIEAJEKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYMHZKKK1 2 3 M
Poetic Form
Metre 101101 11011 101011 01111 1011 01110111 0011 1101010 101111 010011 01010101 10101011010 01100101 101011 0100010 1001111 11110011 111101 1110101 111011 10101101 101111 011101 011101 00101001 001111 0001010 110110 1011101 11010 111101 1101011 0111111 111010111 111011001 011011 11101101 1101011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 996
Words 204
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 38
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 815
Words per stanza (avg) 202
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paul Eluard

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement. more…

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