Analysis of Tease
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
I will give you all my keys,
You shall be my châtelaine,
You shall enter as you please,
As you please shall go again.
When I hear you jingling through
All the chambers of my soul,
How I sit and laugh at you
In your vain housekeeping rôle.
Jealous of the smallest cover,
Angry at the simplest door;
Well, you anxious, inquisitive lover,
Are you pleased with what's in store?
You have fingered all my treasures,
Have you not, most curiously,
Handled all my tools and measures
And masculine machinery?
Over every single beauty
You have had your little rapture;
You have slain, as was your duty,
Every sin-mouse you could capture.
Still you are not satisfied,
Still you tremble faint reproach;
Challenge me I keep aside
Secrets that you may not broach.
Maybe yes, and maybe no,
Maybe there are secret places,
Altars barbarous below,
Elsewhere halls of high disgraces.
Maybe yes, and maybe no,
You may have it as you please,
Since I choose to keep you so,
Suppliant on your curious knees.
Scheme | abab cxcx dede fgfg gdgd hihi Bxja Baja |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (88%) |
Metre | 1111111 111111 1110111 1111101 111111 1010111 1110111 0111010 10101010 1010101 1110010010 1111101 11101110 11111000 10111010 01000100 101001010 11111010 11111110 100111110 111110 1110101 1011101 1011111 1010101 10111010 1010001 11111 1010101 1111111 1111111 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,135 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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