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
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

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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness. more…

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