Analysis of Love Song
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled --
Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world, --
And I wish I'd never met him.
My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams, --
And I wish he were in Asia.
My love runs by like a day in June,
And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon
In the pathway of the morrows.
He'll live his days where the sunbeams start,
Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart, --
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EDEDFGFG HXHFIDID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 01111110 111110111 01111110 1110010101 10111011 111111111 01111011 111101111 00111111 011111101 0011111 110111111 10101010 111111111 01110010 111110101 01111110 1111001 001101 11111011 11111011 111111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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