Analysis of Gloire de Dijon
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
When she rises in the morning
I linger to watch her;
She spreads the bath-cloth underneath the window
And the sunbeams catch her
Glistening white on the shoulders,
While down her sides the mellow
Golden shadow glows as
She stoops to the sponge, and her swung breasts
Sway like full-blown yellow
Gloire de Dijon roses.
She drips herself with water, and her shoulders
Glisten as silver, they crumple up
Like wet and falling roses, and I listen
For the sluicing of their rain-dishevelled petals.
In the window full of sunlight
Concentrates her golden shadow
Fold on fold, until it glows as
Mellow as the glory roses.
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Metre | 11100010 110110 1101101010 00110 10011010 1101010 10111 111010011 111110 11110 11011100010 101101101 11010100110 1010111110 0010111 100101 11101111 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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