Analysis of Brooklyn Bridge
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Pythoness body—arching
Over the night like an ecstasy—
I feel your coils tightening…
And the world’s lessening breath.
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 100111100 1111100 0011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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