This is an analysis of A Sane Revolution by David Herbert Lawrence.

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXba XX cc ccbX dad eXXea
  • Stanza lengths: 4,2,2,4,3,5,
  • Metre: 011010101011 1100101000 11001010 1011 110011110 10101011 1101010 101010010 11010100 100111110100 101010010101 111101011010 110101010 10111110101010000111 11111100110 11010111010011 1100110111110 1010111110100 110111101010111 1101110101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

it, make, let's, labour

Anaphora

don't, and

Epiphora

money, equality

Anadiplosis

labour