Analysis of Spires
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Spires of Grace Church,
For you the workers of the world
Travailed with the mountains…
Aborting their own dreams
Till the dream of you arose -
Beautiful, swaddled in stone -
Scorning their hands.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11010101 11010 010111 1011101 100101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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