Analysis of Walter Savage Landor
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Upon the work of Walter Landor
I am unfit to write with candor.
If you can read it, well and good;
But as for me, I never could.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 010111010 110111110 11111101 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 133 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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