Analysis of To The Stone-Cutters
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
| Scheme | ABCDEEBAAF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11010111011 10010100 11001010110111 0111010 1001100101011 111001 11111010111011 11010101 1111101010111 010110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 464 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 374 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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