Analysis of Sweet Violets
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
You are brief and frail and blue-
Little sisters, I am, too.
You are Heaven's masterpieces-
Little loves, the likeness ceases.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 1010111 1110100 10101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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