Analysis of For A Sad Lady
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
And let her loves, when she is dead,
Write this above her bones:
"No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones."
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011111 110101 11111111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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