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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