Analysis of Submergence
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker round me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be.
Nay, though the pole-star
Is blown out like a candle,
And all the heavens are wandering in disarray,
Yet when pleiads of people are
Deployed around me, and I see
The street’s long outstretched Milky Way,
When people flicker down the pavement,
I forget my bereavement.
Scheme | axbAxb cxdcbd aA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 1000111 101011 1011010 01001010 01101111 11011 1111010 010101100001 11101101 01011011 01101101 110101010 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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