Analysis of Fighting Words
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Say my love is easy had,
Say I'm bitten raw with pride,
Say I am too often sad-
Still behold me at your side.
Say I'm neither brave nor young,
Say I woo and coddle care,
Say the devil touched my tongue-
Still you have my heart to wear.
But say my verses do not scan,
And I get me another man!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1111101 1110111 1111101 1011111 1110111 1110101 1010111 1111111 11110111 01110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 301 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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