Analysis of Healed
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Oh, when I flung my heart away,
The year was at its fall.
I saw my dear, the other day,
Beside a flowering wall;
And this was all I had to say:
"I thought that he was tall!"
| Scheme | ABABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Sicilian Sestet |
| Metre | 11111101 011111 11110101 0101001 01111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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