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
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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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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