This is an analysis of The English are So Nice! by David Herbert Lawrence.
The English are so nice
so awfully nice…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aab acX Xcdd eaefbfabaXXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,4,12,
- Metre: 010111 1101 1101010001 111110101101 01110111 0111111110 010011110111 11101 11110111 111011001111 1111010101000 11010001 011000 1010101011100 1110101 111110100 011111 11110101000110101 101111101 1110111010 11011101 0101111111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
nice, and, you
Epiphora
nice
