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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Poetic Form
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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Robinson Jeffers

John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. more…

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