Analysis of Granite And Cypress
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of
the wind leap at the sea-cliff.
The invisible falcon
Brooded on water and bred them in wide waste places, in a bridechamber
wide to the stars' eyes
In the center of the ocean,
Where no prows pass nor island is lifted ... the sea beyond
Lobos is whitened with the falcon's
Passage, he is here now,
The sky is one cloud, his wing-feathers hiss in the white grass,
my sapling cypresses writhing
In the fury of his passage
Dare not dream of their centuries of future endurance of tempest.
(I have granite and cypress,
Both long-lasting,
Planted in the earth; but the granite sea-boulders are prey to no
hawk's wing, they have taken worse pounding,
Like me they remember
Old wars and are quiet; for we think that the future is one piece
with the past, we wonder why tree-tops
And people are so shaken.)
Scheme | ABCDECFEGHIJKLIMIDNOC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001010101 0111011 0010010 1011001101110001 11011 00101010 11111101100101 1011101 101111 01111111010011 110110 00101110 11111100110100110 1110010 1110 1000110101101111 111110110 111010 1101101111010111 101110111 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 674 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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