Analysis of Iona: The Graves Of The Kings
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
I wish not to lie here.
There's hardly a plot of earth not blessed for burial, but here
One might dream badly.
In beautiful seas a beautiful
And sainted island, but the dark earth so shallow on the rock
Gorged with bad meat.
Kings buried in the lee of the saint,
Kings of fierce Norway, blood-boltered Scotland, bitterly dreaming
Treacherous Ireland.
Imagine what delusions of grandeur,
What suspicion-agonized eyes, what jellies of arrogance and terror
This earth has absorbed.
| Scheme | AAX XXX XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 110011111110011 11110 010010100 010101011110101 1111 110001101 1111111010010 100100 0101010101 10101011101100010 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 475 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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