Analysis of The Maid's Thought
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Why listen, even the water is sobbing for something.
The west wind is dead, the waves
Forget to hate the cliff, in the upland canyons
Whole hillsides burst aglow
With golden broom. Dear how it rained last month,
And every pool was rimmed
With sulphury pollen dust of the wakening pines.
Now tall and slender suddenly
The stalks of purple iris blaze by the brooks,
The pencilled ones on the hill;
This deerweed shivers with gold, the white globe-tulips
Blow out their silky bubbles,
But in the next glen bronze-bells nod, the does
Scalded by some hot longing
Can hardly set their pointed hoofs to expect
Love but they crush a flower;
Shells pair on the rock, birds mate, the moths fly double.
O it Is time for us now
Mouth kindling mouth to entangle our maiden bodies
To make that burning flower.
Submitted by Holt
Scheme | AXXXXXXXXXXXXAXBXXXB X |
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Metre | 11010010110110 0111101 011101001010 11101 1101111111 0100111 111011011 11010100 01110101101 011101 11101101110 1111010 1001111101 1011110 11011101101 1111010 111011101110 1111111 11011010101010 1111010 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 325 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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