Analysis of Philosophy
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don't, and what if I do?
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101101 1011001 110111111 0111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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