Analysis of August
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.
Scheme | ABBCADDC EFFGEFXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 01111010 10111010 101011 0011101 11111010 0010110 1010111 10111 11101011 10101111 111101 101111 10101001 10101010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 483 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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