Analysis of Quia Absurdum
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless
Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.)
Guard yourself from perceiving the inherent nastiness of man and woman.
(Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.)
Faith, as they now confess, is preposterous, an act of will. Choose the Christian sheep-cote
Or the Communist rat-fight: faith will cover your head from the man-devouring stars.
| Scheme | XA XA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110100101110100 110101011111110 1011010001010011010 01011111110 111101101001111101011 101001111101110101001 |
| Characters | 445 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 59 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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