Analysis of The Red Dress
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
I always saw, I always said
If I were grown and free,
I'd have a gown of reddest red
As fine as you could see,
To wear out walking, sleek and slow,
Upon a Summer day,
And there'd be one to see me so
And flip the world away.
And he would be a gallant one,
With stars behind his eyes,
And hair like metal in the sun,
And lips too warm for lies.
I always saw us, gay and good,
High honored in the town.
Now I am grown to womanhood....
I have the silly gown.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 110101 11011101 111111 11110101 010101 01111111 010101 01110101 110111 01110001 011111 1111101 110001 1111110 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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