Analysis of A Winter's Tale
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow,
And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge;
Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go
On towards the pines at the hills’ white verge.
I cannot see her, since the mist’s white scarf
Obscures the dark wood and the dull orange sky;
But she’s waiting, I know, impatient and cold, half
Sobs struggling into her frosty sigh.
Why does she come so promptly, when she must know
That she’s only the nearer to the inevitable farewell;
The hill is steep, on the snow my steps are slow—
Why does she come, when she knows what I have to tell?
Scheme | ABAB XCXC ADAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100101011101 01010111001 101110101 1010110111 1101010111 01011001101 111011010011 1100010101 11111101111 111001010010001 01111011111 111111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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