Analysis of Rhyme Against Living
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide;
If cool my heart and high my head,
I think, "How lucky are the dead!"
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
| Metre | 11110111 1101110 11110111 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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