Analysis of Faute De Mieux
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010101 010101 11011111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 127 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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