Analysis of A Love Song
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Reject me not if I should say to you
I do forget the sounding of your voice,
I do forget your eyes that searching through
The mists perceive our marriage, and rejoice.
Yet, when the apple-blossom opens wide
Under the pallid moonlight’s fingering,
I see your blanched face at my breast, and hide
My eyes from diligent work, malingering.
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
And I do toss through the troubled night for you,
Dreaming your yielded mouth is given to mine,
Feeling your strong breast carry me on into
The peace where sleep is stronger even than wine.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG AHAH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111111111 1101010111 1101111101 01011010001 1101010101 100101100 1111111101 11110011 110111111 0111010101 0101010111 1101110111 0111110111 0111110101 0111110111 0111011111 01111010111 10110111011 10111101101 01111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 878 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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