Analysis of Men
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
They hail you as their morning star
Because you are the way you are.
If you return the sentiment,
They'll try to make you different;
And once they have you, safe and sound,
They want to change you all around.
Your moods and ways they put a curse on;
They'd make of you another person.
They cannot let you go your gait;
They influence and educate.
They'd alter all that they admired.
They make me sick, they make me tired.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01110111 11010100 11111100 01111101 11111101 110111011 111101010 11011111 1100010 110111010 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 326 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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