Analysis of Somebody's Song
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
This is what I vow;
He shall have my heart to keep,
Sweetly will we stir and sleep,
All the years, as now.
Swift the measured sands may run;
Love like this is never done;
He and I are welded one:
This is what I vow.
This is what I pray:
Keep him by me tenderly;
Keep him sweet in pride of me,
Ever and a day;
Keep me from the old distress;
Let me, for our happiness,
Be the one to love the less:
This is what I pray.
This is what I know:
Lovers' oaths are thin as rain;
Love's a harbinger of pain-
Would it were not so!
Ever is my heart a-thirst,
Ever is my love accurst;
He is neither last nor first:
This is what I know.
Scheme | AbbacccA DeedfxfD GhhgiiiG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1111111 1011101 10111 1010111 1111101 1011101 11111 11111 1111100 1110111 10001 1110101 11110100 1011101 11111 11111 1011111 1010011 11011 1011101 101111 1110111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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