Analysis of The Bed By The Window
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
I chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed
When we built the house, it is ready waiting,
Unused unless by some guest in a twelvemonth, who hardly suspects
Its latter purpose. I often regard it,
With neither dislike nor desire; rather with both, so equalled
That they kill each other and a crystalline interest
Remains alone. We are safe to finish what we have to finish;
And then it will sound rather like music
When the patient daemon behind the screen of sea-rock and sky
Thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: 'Come, Jeffers.'
Scheme | ABCDAEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111011010111 11101111010 010111100111001 11010110011 110011010101111 111110001010 0101111110111110 0111110110 101010010111101 1111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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