Analysis of Experience
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 111010 1110111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 128 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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