Analysis of Distant Rainfall
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Like mourning women veiled to the feet
Tall slender rainstorms walk slowly against gray cloud along the
far verge.
The ocean is green where the river empties,
Dull gray between the points of the headlands, purple where
the women walk.
What do they want? Whom are they mourning?
What hero's dust in the urn between the two hands hidden in
the veil?
Titaness after Titaness proudly
Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost
battle's beauty.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101 11011100111010 11 01011101010 110101101101 0101 111111110 110100101011100 01 110110 1001001001010101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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