Analysis of Prophetic Soul
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111101 01111111 11110111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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