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
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

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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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