Analysis of Portrait of the Artist
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Oh, lead me to a quiet cell
Where never footfall rankles,
And bar the window passing well,
And gyve my wrists and ankles.
Oh, wrap my eyes with linen fair,
With hempen cord go bind me,
And, of your mercy, leave me there,
Nor tell them where to find me.
Oh, lock the portal as you go,
And see its bolts be double....
Come back in half an hour or so,
And I will be in trouble.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 110110 01010101 0111010 11111101 1101111 01110111 1111111 11010111 0111110 110111011 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 371 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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