This is an analysis of Snake by David Herbert Lawrence.
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdecd fXafXghh ai jjbcgidkl ma falg XX nX chg amolckXkl pepek eXe fbmbm bbm lo ikmXnabl
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,2,9,2,4,2,2,3,9,5,3,5,3,2,8,
- Metre: 01101101 10111110100101 011 00111010011101 111010110 1111111111110101 1 11100100011001 11010110110110010 011 11001010110 110101100100110 110011 10110110001110 100 11101111101 1110101010 1100100101101 111110110101 110011100111010 11110101 1011110001010001 101001000101010 01011010101 1101 1010001111100011100 11001101001 11101111111011 111011111 11111111010100111101 10110101110 0001010001 101001111111001001110101100100011100 111100 11110 11010111110 110110111101110110011 1111110100 0101100101 1101 11001100111110 11001101110111 100101 1101101100001 110101 110101010110 01001011101 110101010111 111101001101 111101111001011010 01010010010100100011011 010001000010110100110 101110111 111111110 1110101 110101010010 1100111 1100110111101100001011 10110111 00011011100011 110001111101010 10100010100 111101101011 10111101001100101010 11100101 111111111 1110101101 10101110000101 1100101 11111101001 01 111100101 0100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, of, earth, i, it, to, him, slowly, into
Anaphora
and, i
Epiphora
do, honoured