This is an analysis of A Baby Asleep After Pain by David Herbert Lawrence.

As a drenched, drowned bee
Hangs numb and heavy from a bending flower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcXcXaXXXbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 10111 11110001010 1101 1100111011 110101 0111101001011 101000110111 1101010111 10101111 1111111 11101011101 1001011100 1010 10100111 1010010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

my, she