Analysis of State of Nature
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."
–D.H. Lawrence
Within some grassland's patchy heath
Of emerald and of springtime sedge,
Where wild grasses grow beneath
A bulging, sloping burrow's edge,—
A prairie dog is grazing free,
Oblivious of all our cares,
And often, as if in some glee,
Just stands and into Nature stares.
The fox might pounce, the eagle vie,
The serpent through the borrows go ...
Still, even if our friend should die,
Our sorrows he will never know!
Scheme | XX ABABCDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101110101 110 0111101 1100111 1110101 0101011 01011101 010011101 01011011 11001101 01110101 01010101 110110111 101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
It has always intrigued me how animals are more emotionally in tune with Nature to the point that they seem to somehow transcend the psychological insecurities that we humans seem to be plagued with: guilt, shame, worry, sorrow, and other such elements of discontent—as if we humans are somehow existing outside of the state of Nature.
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