Analysis of Conundrums
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Tell me a word
that you've often heard,
yet it makes you squint
when you see it in print!
Tell me a thing
that you've often seen
yet if put in a book
it makes you turn green!
Tell me a thing
that you often do,
when described in a story
shocks you through and through!
Tell me what's wrong
with words or with you
that you don't mind the thing
yet the name is taboo.
Scheme | aabb Cdxd Cexe xece |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101 11101 11111 111101 1101 11101 111001 11111 1101 11101 1010010 11101 1111 11111 111101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 357 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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