Analysis of Palestine
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Old plant of Asia -
Mutilated vine
Holding earth's leaping sap
In every stem and shoot
That lopped off, sprouts again -
Why should you seek a plateau walled about,
Whose garden is the world?
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1001 101101 0100101 111101 1111001101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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