Analysis of Return

Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)



A little too abstract, a little too wise,
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again.
I will go to the lovely Sur Rivers
And dip my arms in them up to the shoulders.
I will find my accounting where the alder leaf quivers
In the ocean wind over the river boulders.
I will touch things and things and no more thoughts,
That breed like mouthless May-flies darkening the sky,
The insect clouds that blind our passionate hawks
So that they cannot strike, hardly can fly.
Things are the hawk's food and noble is the mountain, Oh noble
Pico Blanco, steep sea-wave of marble.


Scheme ABABCCACDEFEGG
Poetic Form
Metre 01010101011 11111110101 11111011101 1011110101 1111010110 01110111010 1111010101011 001011001010 1111010111 11111110001 01111101001 1111011011 110110101010110 1010111110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 654
Words 128
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 126
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Robinson Jeffers

John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. more…

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