Analysis of Wall Street at Night
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Long vast shapes… cooled and flushed through with darkness….
Lidless windows
Glazed with a flashy luster
From some little pert cafe chirping up like a sparrow.
And down among iron guts
Piled silver
Throwing gray spatter of light… pale without heat…
Like the pallor of dead bodies.
| Scheme | ABCDECFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011110 110 1101010 11101011011010 0101101 110 10110111011 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 303 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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