Analysis of Dolor of Autumn
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
The acrid scents of autumn,
Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
Everything, tear-trembling stars of autumn
And the snore of the night in my ear.
For suddenly, flush-fallen,
All my life, in a rush
Of shedding away, has left me
Naked, exposed on the bush.
I, on the bush of the globe,
Like a newly-naked berry, shrink
Disclosed: but I also am prowling
As well in the scents that slink
Abroad: I in this naked berry
Of flesh that stands dismayed on the bush;
And I in the stealthy, brindled odours
Prowling about the lush
And acrid night of autumn;
My soul, along with the rout,
Rank and treacherous, prowling,
Disseminated out.
For the night, with a great breath intaken,
Has taken my spirit outside
Me, till I reel with disseminated consciousness,
Like a man who has died.
At the same time I stand exposed
Here on the bush of the globe,
A newly-naked berry of flesh
For the stars to probe.
Scheme | AXAX XBCD EFGF CDHB AIGI AJHJ XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (57%) |
Metre | 0101110 010111111 1011001110 001101011 1100110 111001 11001111 1001101 1101101 101010101 011110110 1100111 011011010 111101101 01001011 100101 0101110 1101101 1010010 01001 10110111 11011011 111110100100 101111 10111101 1101101 010101011 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 921 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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