Analysis of The Gods! The Gods!
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach,
and all was dreary, great robot limbs, robot breasts,
robot voices, robot even the gay umbrellas.
But a woman, shy and alone, was washing herself under a tap and the glimmer of the presence of the gods was like
lilies, and like water-lilies.
Scheme | XXX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10010010001101 0111011111 11011001010 101010011100110010010101010111 10011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 306 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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