Analysis of Theory
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Into love and out again,
Thus I went, and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen-
Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
Some one dropped me on my head?
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 0110101 1110111 1110111 1010011 1010101 1010101 1111111 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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