Analysis of Emma Goldman

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941



How should they appraise you, who walk up close to you as to a mountain, each proclaiming his own eyeful against the other's eyeful.

Only time standing well off shall measure your circumference and height.


Scheme X X
Poetic Form
Metre 111011111111110101010111010101 1011011110101001
Characters 212
Words 37
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 1
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 83
Words per line (avg) 18
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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