Analysis of Less Time
Andre Breton 1896 (Tinchebray) – 1966 (Paris)
Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account of everything,
there you have it. I've made a census of the stones, they are as numerous as my fingers and some
others; I've distributed some pamphlets to the plants, but not all were willing to accept them. I've
kept company with music for a second only and now I no longer know what to think of suicide, for
if I ever want to part from myself, the exit is on this side and, I add mischievously, the entrance, the
re-entrance is on the other. You see what you still have to do. Hours, grief, I don't keep a
reasonable account of them; I'm alone, I look out of the window; there is no passerby, or rather no
one passes (underline passes). You don't know this man? It's Mr. Same. May I introduce Madam
Madam? And their children. Then I turn back on my steps, my steps turn back too, but I don't
know exactly what they turn back on. I consult a schedule; the names of the towns have been
replaced by the names of people who have been quite close to me. Shall I go to A, return to B,
change at X? Yes, of course I'll change at X. Provided I don't miss the connection with boredom!
There we are: boredom, beautiful parallels, ah! how beautiful the parallels are under God's
perpendicular.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111111111111001110 111111010101111100111001 101010011010111101010111 110011010101001111011111101 111011111010111101110100 11011010111111111011110 1000011110111110101111001101 1101010111111101110110 100110111111111111111 1010111111010100110111 11011101111111111100111 11111111110101110010110 1111010010111000101101 0100 |
Characters | 1,266 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 69 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 971 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 243 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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