Analysis of Lines On Reading Too Many Poets
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Roses, rooted warm in earth,
Bud in rhyme, another age;
Lilies know a ghostly birth
Strewn along a patterned page;
Golden lad and chimbley sweep
Die; and so their song shall keep.
Wind that in Arcadia starts
In and out a couplet plays;
And the drums of bitter hearts
Beat the measure of a phrase.
Sweets and woes but come to print
Quae cum ita sint.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 101011 1011111 11001001 001011 0011101 1010101 1011111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 364 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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