Analysis of Rock And Hawk
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.
This gray rock, standing tall
On the headland, where the seawind
Lets no tree grow,
Earthquake-proved, and signatured
By ages of storms: on its peak
A falcon has perched.
I think here is your emblem
To hang in the future sky;
Not the cross, not the hive,
But this; bright power, dark peace;
Fierce consciousness joined with final
Disinterestedness;
Life with calm death; the falcon's
Realist eyes and act
Married to the massive
Mysticism of stone,
Which failure cannot cast down
Nor success make proud.
Scheme | XAX XBX BXB XXX XXA ABX XXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001 101101 1111 111101 101101 1111 1101 11011111 01011 1111110 1100101 101101 1111011 11001110 1 111101 100101 101010 10011 1101011 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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