Analysis of Two-Volume Novel
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
The sun's gone dim, and
The moon's turned black;
For I loved him, and
He didn't love back.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01110 0111 11110 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 99 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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