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
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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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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