Analysis of Bertha’s Eyes

Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)



You can scorn more illustrious eyes,
sweet eyes of my child, through which there takes flight
something as good or as tender as night.
Turn to mine your charmed shadows, sweet eyes!
Great eyes of a child, adorable secrets,
you resemble those grottoes of magic
where, behind the dark and lethargic,
shine vague treasures the world forgets.
My child has veiled eyes, profound and vast,
and shining like you, Night, immense, above!
Their fires are of Trust, mixed with thoughts of Love,
that glitter in depths, voluptuous or chaste.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111101001 1111111111 1011111011 11111111 11101010010 101011110 101010010 11100101 111110101 0101110101 11011111111 11001010011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 526
Words 91
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 421
Words per stanza (avg) 89
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. more…

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