Analysis of To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
He will love you presently
If you be the way you be.
Send your heart a-skittering.
He will stoop, and lift the thing.
Be your dreams as thread, to tease
Into patterns he shall please.
Let him see your passion is
Ever tenderer than his....
Go and bless your star above,
Thus are you, and thus is Love.
He will leave you white with woe,
If you go the way you go.
If your dreams were thread to weave
He will pluck them from his sleeve.
If your heart had come to rest,
He will flick it from his breast.
Tender though the love he bore,
You had loved a little more....
Lady, go and curse your star,
Thus Love is, and thus you are.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE XBFFGGHHII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1111100 1110111 11101 1110101 1111111 0110111 1111101 10111 1011101 1110111 1111111 1110111 1110111 1111111 1111111 1111111 1010111 1110101 1010111 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 613 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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