Analysis of Cassandra
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers
Hooked in the stones of the wall,
The storm-wrack hair and screeching mouth: does it matter, Cassandra,
Whether the people believe
Your bitter fountain? Truly men hate the truth, they'd liefer
Meet a tiger on the road.
Therefore the poets honey their truth with lying; but religion—
Vendors and political men
Pour from the barrel, new lies on the old, and are praised for kind
Wisdom. Poor bitch be wise.
No: you'll still mumble in a corner a crust of truth, to men
And gods disgusting—you and I, Cassandra.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJHC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111010101110 1001101 011101011110010 1001001 11010101101110 1010101 101010111101010 10001001 110101110101111 101111 111100010011111 01010101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 566 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 445 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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