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?
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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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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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