Analysis of The Prophet
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Ah, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom
The shrouded mother of a new idea, men hide their faces,
Cry out and fend her off, as she seeks her procreant groom,
Wounding themselves against her, denying her fecund embraces.
Scheme | ABAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011001001011 0101010101011110 110101111011 100101001001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 239 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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