Analysis of Summer Holiday
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of
bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-
ered-up cities
Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster.
Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains
will cure them,
Then nothing will remain of the iron age
And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem
Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass
In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the
mountain...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101001 1110010110011 1 0010110001010 11110010111001 1110 1111111110 11110110111 111 11010110101 01110101111010 10011111 0010100111100 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 414 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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