Analysis of The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Unhappy about some far off things
That are not my affair, wandering
Along the coast and up the lean ridges,
I saw in the evening
The stars go over the lonely ocean,
And a black-maned wild boar
Plowing with his snout on Mal Paso Mountain.
The old monster snuffled, "Here are sweet roots,
Fat grubs, slick beetles and sprouted acorns.
The best nation in Europe has fallen,
And that is Finland,
But the stars go over the lonely ocean,"
The old black-bristled boar,
Tearing the sod on Mal Paso Mountain.
"The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean,"
Said the old father of wild pigs,
Plowing the fallow on Mal Paso Mountain.
"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy
And the dogs that talk revolution,
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies,"
Said the gamey black-maned boar
Tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.
Submitted by Holt
Scheme | ABXBCDC XXCXCDC XAXECXC XCXXEDC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011111 111101100 0101010110 110010 0111001010 001111 10111111010 011011111 1111001010 0110010110 0111 10111001010 011101 1001111010 01001111 011110111 101100101 111100 10111001010 10110111 1001111010 11101110100 00111010 111100010 101011 11100100100 101111 101111010 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,004 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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