Analysis of North Wind
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
I love you, malcontent
Male wind -
Shaking the pollen from a flower
Or hurling the sea backward from the grinning sand.
Blow on and over my dreams…
Scatter my sick dreams…
Throw your lusty arms about me…
Envelop all my hot body…
Carry me to pine forests -
Great, rough-bearded forests…
Bring me to stark plains and steppes…
I would have the North to-night -
The cold, enduring North.
And if we should meet the Snow,
Whirling in spirals,
And he should blind my eyes…
Ally, you will defend me -
You will hold me close,
Blowing on my eyelids.
| Scheme | XXXX AABBCCXXX XXXBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11 100101010 110011010101 1101011 10111 11101011 01011110 1011110 111010 1111101 1110111 010101 0111101 10010 011111 1011011 11111 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 547 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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