This is an analysis of Sickness by David Herbert Lawrence.
WAVING slowly before me, pushed into the dark,
Unseen my hands explore the silence, drawing the bark…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aab ccd dda bbX XXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 101001110001 0111010101001 01101001 100111010101 0100101111110011 111101 101100101101 10101111101101 1111 100101101001001 1110100100111101 0010010 1111100111 100101100111 010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
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