This is an analysis of Tortoise Gallantry by David Herbert Lawrence.
Making his advances
He does not look at her, nor sniff at her,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdefga hcXbXX ideejb dbcjd gklX dl fdfb hdjk Xi
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,6,5,4,2,4,4,2,
- Metre: 100010 1111101110 11101100101 1011001000101 1101011101 000101 01011111 01011100111 1111010101 1100101001 10010101 11110110 101 1010001000100101000 11010001101 110101000101010 110101001010 111010 1 101010101010101100 10101 110 11000100001011 01010001 010100001 111 11101001001 101100100011011000101010 11000 010010 101110100101010010 10101010111100110 1010101001110 10010010001 101010 110010011010 10100 101 11010101 111010111 1011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
her, at, and, to
Anaphora
and, this
Epiphora
being
