Analysis of Phenomena
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes
all creatures;
From the greatness of their element they all take beauty.
Gulls; and the dingy freightship lurching south in the eye of a
rain-wind;
The airplane dipping over the hill; hawks hovering
The white grass of the headland; cormorants roosting upon the
guano-
Whitened skerries; pelicans awind; sea-slime
Shining at night in the wave-stir like drowned men's lanterns;
smugglers signaling
A cargo to land; or the old Point Pinos lighthouse
Lawfully winking over dark water; the flight of the twilight
herons,
Lonely wings and a cry; or with motor-vibrations
That hum in the rock like a new storm-tone of the ocean's to
turn eyes westward
The navy's new-bought Zeppelin going by in the twilight,
Far out seaward; relative only to the evening star and the ocean
It slides into a cloud over Point Lobos.
Scheme | ABCDEFDGHIFJKLLMNKOP |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101101010111 110 10101110011110 10010110100110 11 011010011100 0111011001010 1 11100111 1011001111110 10100 0111101111 100101011001101 10 1010011110010 110011011110101 1110 01011100101001 111010010101010010 11010110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 697 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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