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Certitude

Paul Eluard

If I speak it’s to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I’m sure to understand you

If you smile it’s the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire

If I embrace you it’s to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy

If I leave you we’ll remember each other
In leaving you we’ll find each other again.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX AB XX BX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 338
Words 70
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
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Paul Eluard

 · 1895 · Saint Denis

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement. more…

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