Analysis of An Old Workman
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Warped… gland-dry…
With spine askew
And body shrunken into half its space…
Well-used as some cracked paving-stone…
Bearing on his grimed and pitted front
A stamp… as of innumerable feet.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1101 0101001111 11111101 101110101 0111010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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