Analysis of Salmon-Fishing
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now,
The south wind shouts to the rivers,
The rivers open their mouths and the salt salmon
Race up into the freshet.
In Christmas month against the smoulder and menace
Of a long angry sundown,
Red ash of the dark solstice, you see the anglers,
Pitiful, cruel, primeval,
Like the priests of the people that built Stonehengc,
Dark silent forms, performing
Remote solemnities in the red shallows
Of the river's mouth at the year's turn,
Drawing landward their live bullion, the bloody mouths
And scales full of the sunset
Twitch on the rocks, no more to wander at will
The wild Pacific pasture nor wanton and spawning
Race up into fresh water.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011001111101 01111010 010101100110 110101 01010101010 101101 111011011010 10010010 1011010111 1101010 0110011 101011011 101011100101 011101 11011111011 0101010110010 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 553 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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