Analysis of Divinely Superfluous Beauty
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean…
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees grow
And hills tower, waves fall.
The incredible beauty of joy
Stars with fire the joining of lips, O let our loves too
Be joined, there is not a maiden
Burns and thirsts for love
More than my blood for you, by the shore of seals while the wings
Weave like a web in the air
Divinely superfluous beauty.
| Scheme | abCdefgbhijC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011011010111 10010010 0101010 1010110100111 011011 001001011 111001011111011 11111010 10111 11111110111101 1101001 0101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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