Analysis of Time Of Disturbance
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive
life, not to take sides.
Leave it for children, and the emotional rabble of the
streets, to back their horse or support a brawler.
But if you are forced into it: remember that good and
evil are as common as air, and like air shared
By the panting belligerents; the moral indignation that
hoarsens orators is mostly a fool.
Hold your nose and compromise; keep a cold mind. Fight,
if needs must; hate no one. Do as God does,
Or the tragic poets: they crush their man without hating
him, their Lear or Hitler, and often save without
love.
As for these quarrels, they are like the moon, recurrent
and fantastic. They have their beauty but night's
is better.
It is better to be silent than make a noise. It is better
to strike dead than strike often. It is better not
to strike.
Submitted by Holt
Scheme | XXXA XXXX XXXXX XXAAXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011011101100010 11111 111100001001010 1111110101 11111011010110 101110110111 101001000100101 110011001 11101010111 1111111111 10101011110110 111110010101 1 1111011101010 00101111011 110 1110111011011110 111111011101 11 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 889 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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