Analysis of People And A Heron
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
A desert of weed and water-darkened stone under my western windows
The ebb lasted all afternoon,
And many pieces of humanity, men, women, and children, gathering shellfish,
Swarmed with voices of gulls the sea-breach.
At twilight they went off together, the verge was left vacant, an
evening heron
Bent broad wings over the black ebb,
And left me wondering why a lone bird was dearer to me that many people.
Well: rare is dear: but also I suppose
Well reconciled with the world but not with our own natures
we grudge to see them
Reflected on the world for a mirror.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110101011011010 0110101 01010101001100101001 111011011 111110100111101 1010 11110011 01110010111101111010 1111110101 11010111110110 11111 0101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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