Analysis of Bohemia

Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)



Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney
Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.
Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks
Start off from anywhere, end up at sex.
Diarists, critics, and similar roe
Never say nothing, and never say no.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!


Scheme AABBCCDDEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1001001001 1011001011 10010011110 11011010110 101001101 111101111 11001001 1011001011 10111011100 11011010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 409
Words 72
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 328
Words per stanza (avg) 70
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. more…

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