Analysis of Paths
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
I shall tread, another year,
Ways I walked with Grief,
Past the dry, ungarnered ear
And the brittle leaf.
I shall stand, a year apart,
Wondering, and shy,
Thinking, "Here she broke her heart;
Here she pled to die."
I shall hear the pheasants call,
And the raucous geese;
Down these ways, another Fall,
I shall walk with Peace.
But the pretty path I trod
Hand-in-hand with Love-
Underfoot, the nascent sod,
Brave young boughs above,
And the stripes of ribbon grass
By the curling way-
I shall never dare to pass
To my dying day.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 11111 10111 00101 1110101 10001 1011101 11111 1110101 00101 1110101 11111 1010111 10111 010101 11101 0011101 10101 1110111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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