Analysis of A Young Wife
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
The pain of loving you
Is almost more than I can bear.
I walk in fear of you.
The darkness starts up where
You stand, and the night comes through
Your eyes when you look at me.
Ah never before did I see
The shadows that live in the sun!
Now every tall glad tree
Turns round its back to the sun
And looks down on the ground, to see
The shadow it used to shun.
At the foot of each glowing thing
A night lies looking up.
Oh, and I want to sing
And dance, but I can't lift up
My eyes from the shadows: dark
They lie spilt round the cup.
What is it? - Hark
The faint fine seethe in the air!
Like the seething sound in a shell!
It is death still seething where
The wild-flower shakes its bell
And the sky lark twinkles blue -
The pain of loving you
Is almost more than I can bear.
Scheme | AB abac cd cdcd ef efgf gb hbha AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 1111111 110111 010111 1100111 1111111 11001111 0111001 1100111 1111101 01110111 011111 10111101 011101 101111 0111111 111011 111101 1111 0111001 10101001 1111101 0110111 0011101 011101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 01, 2023
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