Analysis of Epilogue
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Patience, little Heart.
One day a heavy, June-hot woman
Will enter and shut the door to stay.
And when your stifling heart would summon
Cool, lonely night, her roused breasts will keep the night at bay,
Sitting in your room like two tiger-lilies
Flaming on after sunset,
Destroying the cool, lonely night with the glow of their hot twilight;
There in the morning, still, while the fierce strange scent comes yet
Stronger, hot and red; till you thirst for the daffodillies
With an anguished, husky thirst that you cannot assuage,
When the daffodillies are dead, and a woman of the dog-days holds you in gage.
Patience, little Heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110101110 110010111 011101110 1101011110111 10011111010 101101 010011011011111 1001011011111 10101111101 1110101111001 10111001010111101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 10 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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