Histrionics
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
-Albert Parsons
went to his death
singing Annie Laurie;
didn't another have
a rose in his coat-
or was it a pink-
dramatizing himself-
Blooded rose
stalk
hanging out of an empty
coat lapel,
or was it a pink carnation
rose color soft as sunrise
glimmering upon a gallows,
and streak of silver song
ravelled with the rain
on a filthy Chicago morning in the Eighties-
you shall outlast horizons.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXXXX CXBXXXCXXXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 11 |
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