‘You Rise the Water Unfolds’

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



You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers

You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded

You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads

You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her

Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours

You are its likeness.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XXX XXX XAX AX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 461
Words 90
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1

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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