Analysis of The Destroyer
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
I am of the wind…
A wisp of the battering wind…
I trail my fingers along the Alps
And an avalanche falls in my wake…
I feel in my quivering length
When it buries the hamlet beneath…
I hurriedly sweep aside
The cities that clutter our path…
As we whirl about the circle of the globe…
As we tear at the pillars of the world…
Open to the wind,
The Destroyer!
The wind that is battering at your gates.
| Scheme | AA XXXX XXXXAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 01101001 111100101 01101011 11011001 111001001 1100101 010110101 11101010101 1111010101 10101 0010 0111100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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