Analysis of To The Others
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
I see you, refulgent ones,
Burning so steadily
Like big white arc lights…
There are so many of you.
I like to watch you weaving -
Altogether and with precision
Each his ray -
Your tracery of light,
Making a shining way about America.
I note your infinite reactions -
In glassware
And sequin
And puddles
And bits of jet -
And here and there a diamond…
But you do not yet see me,
Who am a torch blown along the wind,
Flickering to a spark
But never out.
Scheme | ABXXXCXXX AXCXXX BXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101100 11111 1111011 1111110 01001010 111 1111 100101010100 111100010 01 010 010 0111 0101010 1111111 110110101 100101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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