Analysis of Social Note
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one . . .
Lady, lady, better run!
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 1111101 1110111 101111 1110101 1110101 1010101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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