Analysis of Train Window
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Small towns
Crawling out of their green shirts…
Tubercular towns
Coughing a little in the dawn…
And the church…
There is always a church
With its natty spire
And the vestibule—
That's where they whisper:
Tzz-tzz… tzz-tzz… tzz-tzz…
How many codes for a wireless whisper—
And corn flatter than it should be
And those chits of leaves
Gadding with every wind?
Small towns
From Connecticut to Maine:
Tzz-tzz… tzz-tzz…tzz-tzz…
| Scheme | AbacddefgaghijAka |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1011111 11 10010001 001 11101 11101 0010 11110 111111 1101101010 01101111 01111 1011001 11 1010011 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 466 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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