Analysis of Altitude
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
I wonder
how it would be here with you,
where the wind
that has shaken off its dust in low valleys
touches one cleanly,
as with a new-washed hand,
and pain
is as the remote hunger of droning things,
and anger
but a little silence
sinking into the great silence.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHAII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 1111111 101 11101110110 10110 110111 01 11001101101 010 101010 10010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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