Analysis of Promise Of Peace
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The heads of strong old age are beautiful
Beyond all grace of youth. They have strange quiet,
Integrity, health, soundness, to the full
They've dealt with life and been tempered by it.
A young man must not sleep; his years are war,
Civil and foreign but the former's worse;
But the old can breathe in safety now that they are
Forgetting what youth meant, the being perverse,
Running the fool's gauntlet and being cut
By the whips of the five senses. As for me,
If I should wish to live long it were but
To trade those fevers for tranquillity,
Thinking though that's entire and sweet in the grave
How shall the dead taste the deep treasure they have?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111100 01111111110 0100110101 1111011011 0111111111 100101011 101110101111 01011101001 1001100101 10110110111 1111111101 1111011 101101001001 11011011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 512 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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