Healed
Oh, when I flung my heart away,The year was at its fall.I saw my dear, the other day,Beside a flowering wall;And this was all I had to say:“I thought that he was tall!”
About this text
Healed is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sunset Gun: Poems (Boni & Liveright, 1928), English Wikisource; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Dorothy Parker, Healed, in Sunset Gun (1928), text of English Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/parker-sunset-gun/healed.html, id L27454.
Form and metre
Healed is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABABAB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 90%).
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABABAB awayA · fallB · dayA · wallB · sayA · tallB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Oh, when I flung my heart away, | 8 | ······˘/ |
| The year was at its fall. | 6 | ······ |
| I saw my dear, the other day, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Beside a flowering wall; | 7 | ˘/·/˘˘· |
| And this was all I had to say: | 8 | ········ |
| “I thought that he was tall!” | 6 | ······ |
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