Analysis of A Baby Asleep after Pain
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
As a drenched, drowned bee
Hangs numb and heavy from a bending flower,
So clings to me
My baby, her brown hair brushed with wet tears
And laid against her cheek;
Her soft white legs hanging heavily over my arm
Swinging heavily to my movements as I walk.
My sleeping baby hangs upon my life,
Like a burden she hangs on me.
She has always seemed so light,
But now she is wet with tears and numb with pain
Even her floating hair sinks heavily,
Reaching downwards;
As the wings of a drenched, drowned bee
Are a heaviness, and a weariness.
Scheme | ABACDEFGAHIAJAK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111 11010101010 1111 1100111111 010101 0111101001011 101001110111 1101010111 10101111 111111 11111110111 1001011100 1010 10110111 10100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 421 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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