Analysis of A Single Smile
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
A single smile disputes
Each star with the gathering night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
| Scheme | XAX BAB XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 11101001 0101111 00111101 010111 1011011 11111011 0110101 111010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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