Analysis of Scandal

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941



Aren't there bigger things to talk about
  Than a window in Greenwich Village
  And hyacinths sprouting
  Like little puce poems out of a sick soul?
  Some cosmic hearsay—
  As to whom—it can't be Mars! put the moon—that way….
  Or what winds do to canyons
  Under the tall stars…
  Or even
  How that old roué, Neptune,
  Cranes over his bald-head moons
  At the twinkling heel of a sky-scraper.


Scheme ABCDEEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011101 101001010 010010 11011011011 1101 111111110111 1111110 10011 110 111110 1101111 10100110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 404
Words 69
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 292
Words per stanza (avg) 67
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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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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