Analysis of Convalescent
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
How shall I wail, that wasn't meant for weeping?
Love has run and left me, oh, what then?
Dream, then, I must, who never can be sleeping;
What if I should meet Love, once again?
What if I met him, walking on the highway?
Let him see how lightly I should care.
He'd travel his way, I would follow my way;
Hum a little song, and pass him there.
What if at night, beneath a sky of ashes,
He should seek my doorstep, pale with need?
There could he lie, and dry would be my lashes;
Let him stop his noise, and let me read.
Oh, but I'm gay, that's better off without him;
Would he'd come and see me, laughing here.
Lord! Don't I know I'd have my arms about him,
Crying to him, "Oh, come in, my dear!"
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXX EXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11111101110 111011111 11111101110 111111101 1111110101 111110111 11011111011 101010111 11110101110 11111111 11110111110 111110111 11111101011 111011101 11111111011 101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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