Analysis of Incurable
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned;
The calmer, I, to see it true
That ways of love are never new-
The love that sets you daft and dazed
Is every love that ever blazed;
The happier, I, to fathom this:
A kiss is every other kiss.
The reckless vow, the lovely name,
When Helen walked, were spoke the same;
The weighted breast, the grinding woe,
When Phaon fled, were ever so.
Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore
Her dear be hers forevermore?
Though he be tried and he be bold,
And swearing death should he be cold,
He'll run the path the others went....
But you, my sweet, are different.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHBIIJK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 01011111 01011111 11111101 01111101 110011101 010011101 011100101 01010101 11010101 01010101 1110101 11111111 110111001 01011101 01101 11110111 01011111 11010101 11111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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