Analysis of Shooting Season
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND
The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army
with banners,
The beaters whoop the grouse to the butts.
Three gentlemen fling up their guns and the frightened covey is
a few wings fewer;
Then grooms approach with the panniered horses.
The gray old moorland silence has closed like water and covered
the gunshots.
Wave on wave goes the moor to the great
Circle of the sky; the cairn on the slope names an old battle and
beyond are
Broad gray rocks the grave-marks of clans.
Blond Celtic warriors lair in the sky-line barrows, down toward
the sea
Stand the tall stones of the Danish captains.
We dead that handled weapons and hunted in earnest, we old
dead have watched
Three little living gentlemen yonder
With a bitter flavor in the grin of amusement, uneasily remembering
our own
Old sports and delights. It is better to be dust.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJAKLMBNOPFQRS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001110 011001101110110 110 010101101 110011110010101 01110 110110110 01111011110010 01 111101101 1010101101111100 011 11101111 1101001001110101 01 1011101010 111101001001011 111 1101010010 101010001101001000100 101 110011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 702 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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