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
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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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. more…

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