Analysis of We Have Created The Night
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body’s goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001111111 101111110 10101011110 11111101 1111011101 11110110 111010 01010100100110 0011110111101 1101010101 0100100101001011 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 501 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 406 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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