Analysis of Let Them Alone
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
If God has been good enough to give you a poet
Then listen to him. But for God's sake let him alone until he is dead;
no prizes, no ceremony,
They kill the man. A poet is one who listens
To nature and his own heart; and if the noise of the world grows up
around him, and if he is tough enough,
He can shake off his enemies, but not his friends.
That is what withered Wordsworth and muffled Tennyson, and would have
killed Keats; that is what makes
Hemingway play the fool and Faulkner forget his art.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101111010 110111111110101111 1101100 110101011110 1100111010110111 0110111101 111111001111 1111010010100011 111111 101010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 388 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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