This is an analysis of Bei Hennef by David Herbert Lawrence.

The little river twittering in the twilght,
The wan, wandering look of the pale sky.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xab XXc dd eceff dXaXcaeb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,2,5,8,
  • Metre: 01010100001 0110010011 00111 1101111101 10101010011 110011 100111101110010 101110 11111111101 111010011011 001111111001 010010111011010 10010011 1101111010 1101110100 11011101 11000101 0010001 111 11 111100100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

and, it, i, you

Anaphora

the, you