Analysis of A Doe At Evening

David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)



As I went through the marshes a doe sprang out of the corn and flashed up the hill-side leaving her fawn.

On the sky-line she moved round to watch, she pricked a fine black blotch on the sky.

I looked at her and felt her watching;
I became a strange being.
Still, I had my right to be there with her,

Her nimble shadow trotting along the sky-line, she put back her fine, level-balanced head.
And I knew her.

Ah yes, being male, is not my head hard-balanced, antlered?
Are not my haunches light?
Has she not fled on the same wind with me?
Does not my fear cover her fear?


Scheme X X AAB XB XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111101001111010110111001 101111111110111101 111001010 1010110 1111111110 010110010111110110101 0110 11101111111010 11111 1111101111 11111001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 588
Words 117
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 3, 2, 4
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness. more…

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