Analysis of The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939)
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
This morning Hitler spoke in Danzig, we hear his voice.
A man of genius: that is, of amazing
Ability, courage, devotion, cored on a sick child's soul,
Heard clearly through the dog wrath, a sick child
Wailing in Danzig; invoking destruction and wailing at it.
Here, the day was extremely hot; about noon
A south wind like a blast from hell's mouth spilled a slight rain
On the parched land, and at five a light earthquake
Danced the house, no harm done. Tonight I have been amusing myself
Watching the blood-red moon droop slowly
Into the black sea through bursts of dry lightning and distant thunder.
Well: the day is a poem: but too much
Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens,
Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101111 01110111010 010010010110111 1101011011 1001001001001011 10110101011 0111011111011 1011011011 101111011110101 100111110 0101111111001010 1011010111 11111011001010 10110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 585 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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