Analysis of It’s The Sweet Law Of Men
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
It’s the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It’s the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It’s the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That perfects itself
From the child’s heart’s depths
To reason’s heights.
| Scheme | AXXX ABXX ABXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 11111 111011 111110 101111 10101 010001 011011 101111 111011 1110 10011 01101 1101 10111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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