Analysis of The Virgin Mother
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
My little love, my darling,
You were a doorway to me;
You let me out of the confines
Into this strange countrie,
Where people are crowded like thistles,
Yet are shapely and comely to see.
My little love, my dearest
Twice have you issued me,
Once from your womb, sweet mother,
Once from myself, to be
Free of all hearts, my darling,
Of each heart’s home-life free.
And so, my love, my mother,
I shall always be true to you;
Twice I am born, my dearest,
To life, and to death, in you;
And this is the life hereafter
Wherein I am true.
I kiss you good-bye, my darling,
Our ways are different now;
You are a seed in the night-time,
I am a man, to plough
The difficult glebe of the future
For God to endow.
I kiss you good-bye, my dearest,
It is finished between us here.
Oh, if I were calm as you are,
Sweet and still on your bier!
O God, if I had not to leave you
Alone, my dear!
Let the last word be uttered,
Oh grant the farewell is said!
Spare me the strength to leave you
Now you are dead.
I must go, but my soul lies helpless
Beside your bed.
Scheme | ABXCXB DBCBAB CEDECC AFXFCF DCCCEC XGEGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 100111 1111101 01111 110110110 111001011 1101110 111101 1111110 11111 1111110 111111 0111110 1111111 1111110 1101101 01101010 01111 11111110 10111001 11010011 110111 010011010 11101 11111110 11100111 11101111 101111 111111111 0111 1011110 110111 1101111 1111 111111110 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,066 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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