Analysis of Natural Music
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language.
So I believe if we were strong enough to listen without
Divisions of desire and terror
To the storm of the sick nations, the rage of the hunger smitten cities,
Those voices also would be found
Clean as a child's; or like some girl's breathing who dances alone
By the ocean-shore, dreaming of lovers.
Scheme | ABCDEBFGHA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010011011010 1011011110 111100101111111 1100101110 110111010111001 0101010010 101101100110101010 11010111 110111111011001 1010110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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