Analysis of A Worn Rose
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Where to-day would a dainty buyer
Imbibe your scented juice,
Pale ruin with a heart of fire;
Drain your succulence with her lips,
Grown sapless from much use…
Make minister of her desire
A chalice cup where no bee sips -
Where no wasp wanders in?
Close to her white flesh housed an hour,
One held you… her spent form
Drew on yours for its wasted dower -
What favour could she do you more?
Yet, of all who drink therein,
None know it is the warm
Odorous heart of a ravished flower
Tingles so in her mouth's red core…
Scheme | ABACBACD AEXFDEAF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 011101 110101110 111101 11111 110010010 01011111 111100 110111110 111011 11111101 1111111 1111101 111101 100110110 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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