Analysis of Distance
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Were you to cross the world, my dear,
To work or love or fight,
I could be calm and wistful here,
And close my eyes at night.
It were a sweet and gallant pain
To be a sea apart;
But, oh, to have you down the lane
Is bitter to my heart.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01110111 111111 11110101 011111 10010101 110101 11111101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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