Analysis of The Mystic Blue
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping,
Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping
To sight, revealing a secret, numberless secrets keeping.
Sometimes the darkness trapped within a wheel
Runs into speed like a dream, the blue of the steel
Showing the rocking darkness now a-reel.
And out of the invisible, streams of bright blue drops
Rain from the showery heavens, and bright blue crops
Surge from the under-dark to their ladder-tops.
And all the manifold blue and joyous eyes,
The rainbow arching over in the skies,
New sparks of wonder opening in surprise.
All these pure things come foam and spray of the sea
Of Darkness abundant, which shaken mysteriously,
Breaks into dazzle of living, as dolphins that leap from the sea
Of midnight shake it to fire, so the secret of death we see.
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Metre | 1101010010110 11101011110 1101001011010 0101010101 101110101101 1001010101 0110010011111 1101100111 11010111101 0101010101 011010001 11110100001 11111101101 1100101101000 1011011011011101 111111010101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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