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 |
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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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