Analysis of The Epic Stars
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The heroic stars spending themselves,
Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle,
They must burn out at length like used candles;
And Mother Night will weep in her triumph, taking home her heroes.
There is the stuff for an epic poem--
This magnificent raid at the heart of darkness, this lost battle--
We don't know enough, we'll never know.
Oh happy Homer, taking the stars and the Gods for granted.
Submitted by Holt
| Scheme | XAXXXAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001011001 101101011010110 1111111110 0101110010101010 1101111010 1010011011101110 111011101 110101001001110 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 433 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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