Analysis of Guinevere at Her Fireside
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.
Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen.
(And oh, the shirts of linen-lawn,
And all the armor, tagged and tied,
And church on Sundays, dusk and dawn.
And bed a thing to kneel beside!)
The bravest one stood tall above
The rest, and watched me as a light.
I heard and heard them talk of love;
I'd naught to do but think, at night.
The bravest man has littlest brains;
That chalky fool from Astolat
With all her dying and her pains!-
Thank God, I helped him over that.
I found him not unfair to see-
I like a man with peppered hair!
And thus it came about. Ah, me,
Tristram was busied otherwhere....
A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.
Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen.
Scheme | ABAB cdcd efef gdgx hihi ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01011101 11110111 11111111 010101001 01011101 01010101 0111101 01011101 01011101 01011101 11011111 11111111 010111001 11111 11010001 11111101 11110111 11011101 01110111 101101 01011101 11110111 11111111 010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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