Analysis of The Thin Edge
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
With you, my heart is quiet here,
And all my thoughts are cool as rain.
I sit and let the shifting year
Go by before the windowpane,
And reach my hand to yours, my dear . . .
I wonder what it's like in Spain.
| Scheme | ABCBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 01111111 11010101 1101010 01111111 11011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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