Analysis of News Item
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 110110 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 57 |
| Words | 11 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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