Analysis of The Machine
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field
And carries passengers brief rides,
Buzzed overhead on the tender blue above the orange of sundown.
Below it five troubled night-herons
Turned short over the shore from its course, four east, one northward.
Beyond them
Swam the new moon in amber.
I don't know why, but lately the forms of things appear to me with time
One of their visible dimensions.
The thread brightness of the bent moon appeared enormous, unnumbered
Ages of years; the night-herons
Their natural size, they have croaked over the shore in the hush at sundown
Much longer than human language
Has fumbled with the air: but the plane having no past but a certain future,
Insect in size as in form,
Was also accepted, all these forms of power placed without preference
In the grave arrangement of the evening.
Submitted by Holt
Scheme | AXBCXXDXCACBXDXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101011101 01010011 1101101010101011 011110110 11100111111110 011 1011010 11111100111011111 111100010 01101011010101 10110110 11001111100100111 11011010 1101011011011101010 101101 110010111110101100 0010101010 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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