This is an analysis of Whales Weep Not! by David Herbert Lawrence.
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab Xaac aabdaec XebX aXXXcafe febdbaac Xcac
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,7,4,8,8,4,
- Metre: 11010110101 01010110100110 10100101111111 1111101010 0110110101010 11111111111001 111111101001010 10100101 1101110101 1001010101 11010101011 1011110101 0011001 1101011000101 110010100010110011 01110101101011101 00110111001110010 110010011101001001 0101101001110111 11011001 010000011100 11110110010001001 1100100101110 10101011101011101 1100111110001000010101 11110110111001 11010101000101 11011111001001 01001101001 110100001001 1101011011 1101000101 110101 110010101100110 1001010101001101 1001110111100101 1101011111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, with, of, whales, in, she, happy
Anaphora
and, she
