Analysis of Carmel Point
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads-
Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.-As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.
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Metre | 001001011 11001011011110 110011111 01011100101111 10101111101 1011110111011 101011111 110111111010101 110011101 11011010101010 1001011010 110101011101111 1111011001 111101010001100 10101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 614 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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