Analysis of I Only Wish To Love You
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
I only wish to love you
A storm fills the valley
A fish the river
I have made you the size of my solitude
The whole world to hide in
Days and nights to understand
To see no more in your eyes
Than what I think of you
And a world in your image
And days and nights ruled by your eyelids.
| Scheme | AXX XXX XAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 011010 01010 1111011110 011110 101101 1111011 111111 0010110 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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