Analysis of Lies About Love
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
We are a liars, because
the truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
whereas letters are fixed,
and we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my friend, this year,
is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
as if it were a coin with a fixed value
instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101001 01110010101 011011 011101011 011111111 11001011111 1101111101 11010111 11100110110 0110101101001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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