Analysis of Discord in Childhood
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,
And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree
Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s
Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously.
Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash
Whistling delirious rage, and the dreadful sound
Of a thick lash booming and bruising, until it drowned
The other voice in a silence of blood, ’neath the noise of the ash.
Scheme | ABAB CDDC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111111001 0111010101101 10101101 11000111000 0101110010100101 100100100101 1011100100111 0101001011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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