This is an analysis of Irony by David Herbert Lawrence.

Always, sweetheart,
Carry into your room the blossoming boughs of cherry,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbccca deddedafaf
  • Stanza lengths: 7,10,
  • Metre: 1111 10001101001010 10110110101110 1101101110100001 1100101011110 00101111101011010 01110111010011001 01110111 10101101 0100001 101010101 100111101 0101 1011 11001000101 00100101101 01101001111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, of

Epiphora

doves