Analysis of Coda
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of throwing the battle-
Would you kindly direct me to hell?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010110 11001011 110110110 11001011 111010011 01101101 111011010 01101001 011010110 01101001 1110110010 111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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