Analysis of Autobiography
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat;
My dress is 1922....
My life is all like that.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11111101 010111 111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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