This is an analysis of Mating by David Herbert Lawrence.
Round clouds roll in the arms of the wind,
The round earth rolls in a clasp of blue sky,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababa babaX cdcXc ebeXe fffff ghghg bdbdb hgXgh hihih
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 111001001 0111001011 1110101011 0110001 01010100101 100100101 1101001001 11110111 011111 1101111101 0010100101 101010101011 1011100101 01011000 0111110111101 1110110111 1010100111 01110101 010100 10101000100110 110111101 1101010101 111110101 11001101 10010111111 1101100101 010010011001 1101011001 10101001 1101010111111 1111100111 11001011101 1100101111 10101 0100111101001 11111101 011100010101 0010101010 1101101 00101110100 10101111 010101001001 011101001 11111 00111101011110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
and, ah, to
Anaphora
the