Analysis of End Of The World
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War,
We used to take it for known that the human race
Would last the earth out, not dying till the planet died. I wrote a schoolboy poem
About the last man walking in stoic dignity along the dead shore
Of the last sea, alone, alone, alone, remembering all
His racial past. But now I don't think so. They'll die faceless in flocks,
And the earth flourish long after mankind is out.
Scheme | ABCADEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010001011011 111111110101 1101111010101110110 010111001010001011 101101010101001 1101111111111001 001101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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