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 |
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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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