This is an analysis of A Baby Running Barefoot by David Herbert Lawrence.

When the bare feet of the baby beat across the grass
The little white feet nod like white flowers in the wind,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaXbc dbdccc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,6,
  • Metre: 1011001010101 0101111110001 11111101001010 10101110101 0101010110 1111101100010110 1010101001001 1110100101001 1011110010010 11111111 001011011 111001 111011110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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