Analysis of Nothing to Save
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.
Scheme | ABC |
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Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 1110111111 10101110001 10110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 116 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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