Analysis of Hooded Night
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died,
And the wind moves. Moves in the dark
The sleeping power of the ocean, no more beastlike than manlike,
Not to be compared; itself and itself.
Its breath blown shoreward huddles the world with a fog; no stars
Dance in heaven; no ship's light glances.
I see the heavy granite bodies of the rocks of the headland,
That were ancient here before Egypt had pyramids,
Bulk on the gray of the sky, and beyond them the jets of young trees
I planted the year of the Versailles peace.
But here is the final unridiculous peace. Before the first man
Here were the stones, the ocean, the cypresses,
And the pallid region in the stone-rough dome of fog where the moon
Falls on the west. Here is reality.
The other is a spectral episode: after the inquisitive animal's
Amusements are quiet: the dark glory.
Scheme | ABBCDEAFGHIDJKLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110110111 00111001 01010101011111 1110101001 11110100110111 101011110 110101010101101 1010101101100 1101101001101111 1100110011 1110101101011 100101001 0010100011111101 11011110 010101101000100100 0101100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 845 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 671 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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