The Ghetto, and Other Poems
Lola Ridge's first book, the Lower East Side and the industrial city in free verse: "The Ghetto", "Manhattan", "Frank Little at Calvary", "Brooklyn Bridge".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,750 lines, 88% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 88% to 89%). Alliteration runs at 0.92 times what shuffling the words would give (0.19 observed against 0.21 expected). 34% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To the American Peopleiambic pentameter · 7 linesThe Ghetto I51 linesThe Ghetto II108 linesThe Ghetto IIItrochaic trimeter · 52 linesThe Ghetto IViambic trimeter · 127 linesThe Ghetto Viambic trimeter · 56 linesThe Ghetto VI44 linesThe Ghetto VIItrochaic trimeter · 65 linesThe Ghetto VIII57 linesThe Ghetto IXtrochaic tetrameter · 68 linesManhattantrochaic tetrameter · 29 linesBroadway47 linesFlotsam50 linesPoem IItrochaic trimeter · 27 linesSpring41 linesBowery Afternoontrochaic tetrameter · 16 linesPromenadetrochaic trimeter · 29 linesThe Fog11 linesFaces45 linesDebrisiambic tetrameter · 7 linesThe Song of Iron I25 linesThe Song of Iron IItrochaic trimeter · 41 linesThe Song of Iron IIItrochaic tetrameter · 8 linesThe Song of Iron IVdactylic tetrameter · 45 linesFrank Little at Calvary I62 linesFrank Little at Calvary II8 linesFrank Little at Calvary III30 linesSpiresiambic trimeter · 7 linesThe Legion of Iron31 linesFueliambic tetrameter · 12 linesA Toastanapaestic trimeter · ABAB · 28 lines"The Everlasting Return"83 linesPalestineiambic trimeter · 7 linesThe Song12 linesAmerica!iambic trimeter · 8 linesTo the Others19 linesBabelAABB · 4 linesThe Fiddlertrochaic tetrameter · 13 linesDawn Wind23 linesNorth Windiambic trimeter · 19 linesThe Destroyeriambic tetrameter · 13 linesLullabytrochaic pentameter · AABB · 32 linesThe Foundlingiambic trimeter · 22 linesThe Woman with Jewels25 linesSubmerged13 linesArt and Lifeiambic trimeter · 14 linesBrooklyn Bridge4 linesDreams9 linesThe Fire16 linesA Memory19 linesThe Edge36 linesThe Garden29 linesUnder-Songiambic trimeter · 32 linesA Worn Roseiambic tetrameter · 16 linesIron Wine12 linesDispossessedtrochaic trimeter · 20 linesThe Star4 linesThe Tidingscommon measure · 12 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Ghetto, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #4332. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.