Analysis of To Newcastle
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
I met a man the other day-
A kindly man, and serious-
Who viewed me in a thoughtful way,
And spoke me so, and spoke me thus:
"Oh, dallying's a sad mistake;
'Tis craven to survey the morrow!
Go give your heart, and if it break-
A wise companion is Sorrow.
"Oh, live, my child, nor keep your soul
To crowd your coffin when you're dead...."
I asked his work; he dealt in coal,
And shipped it up the Tyne, he said.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 01010100 11100101 01110111 110101 110101010 11110111 01010110 11111111 11110111 11111101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 407 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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