Analysis of Reuben's Children
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed-
I think they would be better dead.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
| Metre | 111111 11110100 01011111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 133 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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