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 |
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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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