Analysis of Intimates
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Don't you care for my love? she said bitterly.
I handed her the mirror, and said:
Please address these questions to the proper person!
Please make all requests to head-quarters!
In all matters of emotional importance
please approach the supreme authority direct! -
So I handed her the mirror.
And she would have broken it over my head,
but she caught sight of her own reflection
and that held her spellbound for two seconds
while I fled.
Scheme | X ABXXX XABXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111100 110001001 11110101010 111011110 011010100010 101001010001 11100010 01111011011 1111101010 011011110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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