Analysis of The Immediate Life
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
What’s become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00111111101 111011101110 01001010101100 10101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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