This is an analysis of The American eagle by David Herbert Lawrence.
THE dove of Liberty sat on an egg
And hatched another eagle.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab c Xdeefc c gfhbc ijcckhXlX b XkiXX g bXi blXfXmge deXX lcjk eXcehmjc bXaigaa
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,6,1,5,9,1,5,1,3,8,4,4,8,7,
- Metre: 0101001111 1101010 1100101 10110101 11110010101001 10 10011100110010 01 1001101 100100101010101001 1001010100110010 100110100 11010010011100 100101 01101001010001 10100010000111 101101100111100 1011 101001 0110100101001 010100101101101 111110001 111111111 1 1110101110 1001001110001010 101010101 1010100101 101011101100 01101001 01010 011001010010010 1111011001001 1110100 1101111010010 10101011111 1 10100 10101110110110 1 1010010010 10010110101 11001000011011 00101 11110110 1010101 011010 11010001 100011010010100 100100 1000101011110 100101001010010 10 10011 1001100100111 101001 100101110010100100 1 011010010 11101110101 1010101001011 11110011110 101101 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
eagles, with, to, coo, his, of
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
egg