Analysis of The Excesses Of God
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Is it not by his high superfluousness we know
Our God? For to be equal a need
Is natural, animal, mineral: but to fling
Rainbows over the rain
And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows
On the domes of deep sea-shells,
And make the necessary embrace of breeding
Beautiful also as fire,
Not even the weeds to multiply without blossom
Nor the birds without music:
There is the great humaneness at the heart of things,
The extravagant kindness, the fountain
Humanity can understand, and would flow likewise
If power and desire were perch-mates.
| Scheme | ABCDEFCGHIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111111 1011111001 1100100100111 11001 01001010101 1011111 01010001110 10010110 110011100110 1010110 1101110111 0010010010 01001010111 1100010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 561 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 438 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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