Analysis of Bertha’s Eyes
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
You can scorn more illustrious eyes,
sweet eyes of my child, through which there takes flight
something as good or as tender as night.
Turn to mine your charmed shadows, sweet eyes!
Great eyes of a child, adorable secrets,
you resemble those grottoes of magic
where, behind the dark and lethargic,
shine vague treasures the world forgets.
My child has veiled eyes, profound and vast,
and shining like you, Night, immense, above!
Their fires are of Trust, mixed with thoughts of Love,
that glitter in depths, voluptuous or chaste.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001 1111111111 1011111011 11111111 11101010010 101011110 101010010 11100101 111110101 0101110101 11011111111 11001010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 421 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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