Analysis of At a Dinner Party
With fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
The wine and laughter flow;
I'll not complain--could one expect
So dull a world to know?
You look across the fruit and flowers,
My glance your glances find.--
It is our secret, only ours,
Since all the world is blind.
| Scheme | ABAB CACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
| Metre | 110100111 010101 11011101 110111 110101010 111101 1110101010 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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