Analysis of Science
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Man, introverted man, having crossed
In passage and but a little with the nature of things this latter
century
Has begot giants; but being taken up
Like a maniac with self-love and inward conflicts cannot manage
his hybrids.
Being used to deal with edgeless dreams,
Now he's bred knives on nature turns them also inward: they
have thirsty points though.
His mind forebodes his own destruction;
Actaeon who saw the goddess naked among leaves and his hounds
tore him.
A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle,
A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely
little too much?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMCN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001101 01001010101011110 100 10110110101 1010111010011010 110 10111111 11111101110101 11011 11111010 11101010011011 11 010100101010 011010111111000 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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