Analysis of Bric-a-Brac
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Little things that no one needs --
Little things to joke about --
Little landscapes, done in beads.
Little morals, woven out,
Little wreaths of gilded grass,
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk.
Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore -- little wax bouquets,
Prayers cut upon a pin,
Little maps of pinkish lands,
Little charts of curly seas,
Little plats of linen strands,
Little verses, such as these.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1011111 1011101 101101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010001 1111101 1011111 1010001 110101 110101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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