Analysis of The Place For No Story
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
The coast hills at Sovranes Creek:
No trees, but dark scant pasture drawn thin
Over rock shaped like flame;
The old ocean at the land's foot, the vast
Gray extension beyond the long white violence;
A herd of cows and the bull
Far distant, hardly apparent up the dark slope;
And the gray air haunted with hawks:
This place is the noblest thing I have ever seen.
No imaginable
Human presence here could do anything
But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion.
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Metre | 011111 111111011 101111 0110101101 101001011100 0111001 110100101011 00111011 111010111101 101000 101011110 10101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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