Analysis of At the Window
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters
Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter;
While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.
Further down the valley the clustered tombstones recede,
Winding about their dimness the mist’s grey cerements, after
The street lamps in the darkness have suddenly started to bleed.
The leaves fly over the window and utter a word as they pass
To the face that leans from the darkness, intent, with two dark-filled eyes
That watch for ever earnestly from behind the window glass.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110101011110 101101111010010 110011111011010 101010010101 100111011110 011001011001011 0111001001001111 1011110100111111 111101001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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