This is an analysis of After Many Days by David Herbert Lawrence.

I wonder if with you, as it is with me,
If under your slipping words, that easily flow…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd abab ebeb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11000110001 010110111001 0111010100 110011011 1111010101 1001111001010 1101011101 1010 0111010101 0111110101 0010110110110 00110111 1111111101 0111010101 1111111101 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

if, would, you

Anaphora

if