Fertile Eyes
Paul Eluard 1895 (Saint-Denis) – 1952 (Charenton-le-Pont)
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aBC xxax xxx xxx BC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 3, 2 |
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