Analysis of Skyscrapers
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Skyscrapers… remote, unpartisan…
Turning neither to the right nor left
Your imperturbable fronts….
Austerely greeting the sun
With one chilly finger of stone….
I know your secrets… better than all the policemen
like fat blue mullet along the avenues.
| Scheme | ABCAAAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011 101010111 111 101001 11101011 1111010110010 1111001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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