This is an analysis of Thought by David Herbert Lawrence.

Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbXXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1111 1101001100010010010 101110101 100101001100100 1001001010110100 10101001011101101 101001001001100010 1010111101101010 1001001010010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

thought, of

Anaphora

thought

Epiphora

consciousness