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 |
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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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