Analysis of Condolence
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
They hurried here, as soon as you had died,
Their faces damp with haste and sympathy,
And pressed my hand in theirs, and smoothed my knee,
And clicked their tongues, and watched me, mournful-eyed.
Gently they told me of that Other Side-
How, even then, you waited there for me,
And what ecstatic meeting ours would be.
Moved by the lovely tale, they broke, and cried.
And when I smiled, they told me I was brave,
And they rejoiced that I was comforted,
And left to tell of all the help they gave.
But I had smiled to think how you, the dead,
So curiously preoccupied and grave,
Would laugh, could you have heard the things they said.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 1101110100 0111010111 0111011101 1011111101 1101110111 01010101011 1101011101 0111111111 0101111100 0111110111 1111111101 1100001001 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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