Analysis of Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence

Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)



So take my vows and scatter them to sea;
Who swears the sweetest is no more than human.
And say no kinder words than these of me:
"Ever she longed for peace, but was a woman!
And thus they are, whose silly female dust
Needs little enough to clutter it and bind it,
Who meet a slanted gaze, and ever must
Go build themselves a soul to dwell behind it."

For now I am my own again, my friend!
This scar but points the whiteness of my breast;
This frenzy, like its betters, spins an end,
And now I am my own.  And that is best.
Therefore, I am immeasurably grateful
To you, for proving shallow, false, and hateful.


Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1111010111 11010111110 0111011111 10111111010 011111011 110011101011 1101010101 11010111011 1111110111 1111010111 1101110111 0111110111 111010010 11110101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 122
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 234
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 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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