This is an analysis of In Trouble And Shame by David Herbert Lawrence.

I look at the swaling sunset
And wish I could go also…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XXXXXba XbX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,7,3,
  • Metre: 11101011 1111110 10110101101 111111 101111111 1111001 11110 111101010 11001010100 11111 11111 1101111010110 11101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

i, my

Anaphora

my