Analysis of Ave Caesar
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.
Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.
Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists--
Some kindly Sicilian tyrant who'll keep
Poverty and Carthage off until the Romans arrive,
We are easy to manage, a gregarious people,
Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101011 101010001011010111 11011111010 1101111110111100 11001001011 10001010101001 11101100010010 1110010101001110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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