Analysis of Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song

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



There's many and many, and not so far,
  Is willing to dry my tears away;
There's many to tell me what you are,
  And never a lie to all they say.

It's little the good to hide my head,
  It's never the use to bar my door;
There's many as counts the tears I shed,
  There's mourning hearts for my heart is

There's honester eyes than your blue eyes,
  There's better a mile than such as you.
But when did I say that I was wise,
  And when did I hope that you were true?


Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1100100111 110111101 110111111 010011111 110011111 110011111 110110111 11011111 1111111 110011111 111111111 011111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 464
Words 97
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 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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