Analysis of On Building With Stone
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother
Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands
For only slaves, is a far sweeter toil than to cut
Passions in verse for a sick people.
I'd liefer bed one boulder in the house-wall than be the time's
Archilochus: we name not Homer: who now
Can even imagine the fabulous dawn when bay-leaves (to a blind
Beggar) were not bitter in the teeth?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101010101010 11011111 1101101101111 100110110 110111000111101 11111011 11001001001111101 100110001 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 401 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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