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 |
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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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