Analysis of A Very Short Song
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101 1111 1110101 011101 1110101 11101 1110111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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