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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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. more…

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