Analysis of Dispossessed

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941



Tender and tremulous green of leaves
Turned up by the wind,
Twanging among the vines -
Wind in the grass
Blowing a clear path
For the new-stripped soul to pass…

The naked soul in the sunlight…
Like a wisp of smoke in the sunlight
On the hill-side shimmering.

Dance light on the wind, little soul,
Like a thistle-down floating
Over the butterflies
And the lumbering bees…

Come away from that tree
And its shadow grey as a stone…

Bathe in the pools of light
On the hillside shimmering -
Shining and wetted and warm in the sun-spray falling like golden rain -

But do not linger and look
At that bleak thing under the tree.


Scheme XXXAXA BBC XCXX DX BCX XD
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 100100111 11101 10101 1001 10011 1011111 0101001 10111001 1011100 11101101 1010110 10010 001001 101111 0111101 100111 101100 1001010011101101 1111001 11111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 619
Words 117
Sentences 3
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 3, 4, 2, 3, 2
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde feminist and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences She along with other political poets of the early Modernist period has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the twenty-first century more…

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