Analysis of Liaison
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight,
Star-spiders spinning their thread
Hang high suspended, withouten respite
Watching us overhead.
Come then under the trees, where the leaf-cloths
Curtain us in so dark
That here we’re safe from even the ermin-moth’s
Flitting remark.
Here in this swarthy, secret tent,
Where black boughs flap the ground,
You shall draw the thorn from my discontent,
Surgeon me sound.
This rare, rich night! For in here
Under the yew-tree tent
The darkness is loveliest where I could sear
You like frankincense into scent.
Here not even the stars can spy us,
Not even the white moths write
With their little pale signs on the wall, to try us
And set us affright.
Kiss but then the dust from off my lips,
But draw the turgid pain
From my breast to your bosom, eclipse
My soul again.
Waste me not, I beg you, waste
Not the inner night:
Taste, oh taste and let me taste
The core of delight.
Scheme | ABXB CDCD EFEF XEXE GAGA HXHX IAIA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 0111111101 1101011 11010110 101101 1110011011 101011 11011100101 1001 10110101 111101 1110111001 1011 1111101 100111 010111111 1110011 111001111 1100111 111011101111 0111 111011111 110101 111111001 1101 1111111 10101 1110111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 937 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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