Analysis of Self-pity
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Scheme | ABCB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 1101011 10101 01111101101 011010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 140 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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