Analysis of Electricity
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Out of fiery contacts…
Rushing auras of steel
Touching and whirled apart…
Out of the charged phallases
Of iron leaping
Female and male,
Complete, indivisible, one,
Fused into light.
| Scheme | ABCADEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 10111 100101 11011 11010 101 0101001 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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