Analysis of Landscape

Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)



Now this must be the sweetest place
From here to heaven's end;
The field is white and flowering lace,
The birches leap and bend,

The hills, beneath the roving sun,
From green to purple pass,
And little, trifling breezes run
Their fingers through the grass.

So good it is, so gay it is,
So calm it is, and pure.
A one whose eyes may look on this
Must be the happier, sure.

But me- I see it flat and gray
And blurred with misery,
Because a lad a mile away
Has little need of me.


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11110101 111101 011101001 01101 01010101 111101 01010101 110101 11111111 111101 01111111 1101001 11111101 011100 01010101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 469
Words 97
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 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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