Analysis of Brooding Grief
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
A yellow leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me.
Why should I start and stand still?
I was watching the woman that bore me
Stretched in the brindled darkness
Of the sick-room, rigid with will
To die: and the quick leaf tore me
Back to this rainy swill
Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011010 1101011 1111011 1110010111 100110 10111011 11001111 111101 110101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 326 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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