Analysis of Lies About Love

David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)



We are a liars, because
the truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
whereas letters are fixed,
and we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my friend, this year,
is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
as if it were a coin with a fixed value
instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.


Scheme ABCDEEFGHI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101001 01110010101 011011 011101011 011111111 11001011111 1101111101 11010111 11100110110 0110101101001001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 390
Words 82
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 298
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 09, 2023

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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness. more…

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