Analysis of The Last Question
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
New love, new love, where are you to lead me?
All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line.
How are you to slake me, and how are you to feed me?
With bitter yellow berries, and a sharp new wine.
New love, new love, shall I be forsaken?
One shall go a-wandering, and one of us must sigh.
Sweet it is to slumber, but how shall we awaken-
Whose will be the broken heart, when dawn comes by?
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111111 1010101110101 1111110111111 110101000111 1111111010 1110100011111 1111101111010 11101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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