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East River

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941

Dour river
  Jaded with monotony of lights
  Diving off mast heads….
  Lights mad with creating in a river… turning its sullen back…
  Heave up, river…
  Vomit back into the darkness your spawn of light….
  The night will gut what you give her.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCDAEA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 256
Words 44
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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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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