This is an analysis of The White Horse by David Herbert Lawrence.

The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
and the horse looks at him in silence.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,
  • Metre: 01110011010101 101111010 111101100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 3