Analysis of To Larkin
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Is it you I see go by the window, Jim Larkin—you not looking
at me nor any one,
And your shadow swaying from East to West?
Strange that you should be walking free—you shut down without light,
And your legs tied up with a knot of iron.
One hundred million men and women go inevitably about their affairs,
In the somnolent way
Of men before a great drunkenness….
They do not see you go by their windows, Jim Larkin,
With your eyes bloody as the sunset
And your shadow gaunt upon the sky…
You, and the like of you, that life
Is crushing for their frantic wines.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110101101110 111101 011101111 11111101111011 01111101110 11010101010100001101 001001 110101100 1111111110110 11110101 01110101 10011111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 436 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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