Analysis of And Yet It Is A Gentle Art
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
(Parody is a genre frowned upon by your professors
of literature... And yet it is a gentle art-
'The Point of View' in May _Scribner's_.)
A sweet disorder in the verse
That never looks behind
Shall profit not who steals my purse,
Let joy be unconfined!
How vainly men themselves amaze!
The stars began to blink,
An art that there were few to praise,
Nor any dropp to drink.
O sleep, it is a blessed thing
Which I must ne'er enjoy!
There never was a fairer spring
Than when I was a boy.
One fond embrace and then we part!
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
And yet it is a gentle art,
Which nobody can deny.
| Scheme | ABA CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101010111010 1100001110101 0111011 01010001 110101 11011111 11101 11010101 010111 11110111 110111 1111011 111101 11010101 111101 11010111 1111011 01110101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 612 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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