Analysis of Prisoner
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Long I fought the driving lists,
Plume a-stream and armor clanging;
Link on link, between my wrists,
Now my heavy freedom's hanging.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110101 10101010 1110111 11101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 141 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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