Analysis of Chant For Dark Hours

Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)



Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Book shop.
(Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.)

Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Crap game.
(He said he'd come at moonrise, and here's another day!)

Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Bar-room.
(Wait about, and hang about, and that's the way it goes.)

Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Woman.
(Heaven never send me another one of those!)

Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Golf course.
(Read a book, and sew a seam, and slumber if you can.)

Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Haberdasher's.
(All your life you wait around for some damn man!)


Scheme ABxc ABxc ABxd ABxd ABxe ABde
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1010 11 101111011101 1111 1010 11 111111010101 1111 1010 11 1010101010111 1111 1010 10 101011010111 1111 1010 11 1010101010111 1111 1010 1 11111011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 567
Words 120
Sentences 13
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. more…

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