Analysis of Gray Weather
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the Pacific surf
Still cheerfully pounds the worn granite drum;
But there's no storm; and the birds are still, no song; no kind of excess;
Nothing that shines, nothing is dark;
There; is neither joy nor grief nor a person, the sun's tooth
sheathed in cloud,
And life has no more desires than a stone.
The stormy conditions of time and change are all abrogated, the essential
Violences of survival, pleasure,
Love, wrath and pain, and the curious desire of knowing, all perfectly
suspended.
In the cloudy light, in the timeless quietness,
One explores deeper than the nerves or heart of nature, the womb or soul,
To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101101011100101 1100101101 111100111111111 10111011 11101111010011 101 01111010101 0100101101111000010 1101010 1101001000101101100 010 001010010100 10110101111100111 101010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 567 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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