Analysis of The Fiddler

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941



In a little Hungarian cafe
Men and women are drinking
Yellow wine in tall goblets.

Through the milky haze of the smoke,
The fiddler, under-sized, blond,
Leans to his violin
As to the breast of a woman.
Red hair kindles to fire
On the black of his coat-sleeve,
Where his white thin hand
Trembles and dives,
Like a sliver of moonlight,
When wind has broken the water.


Scheme XXA XXXXBXXAXB
Poetic Form
Metre 0010010001 1010110 101011 10101101 01001011 111001 11011010 111110 1011111 11111 101 101011 11110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 361
Words 69
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 10
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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