Phenomena
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes
all creatures;
From the greatness of their element they all take beauty.
Gulls; and the dingy freightship lurching south in the eye of a
rain-wind;
The airplane dipping over the hill; hawks hovering
The white grass of the headland; cormorants roosting upon the
guano-
Whitened skerries; pelicans awind; sea-slime
Shining at night in the wave-stir like drowned men's lanterns;
smugglers signaling
A cargo to land; or the old Point Pinos lighthouse
Lawfully winking over dark water; the flight of the twilight
herons,
Lonely wings and a cry; or with motor-vibrations
That hum in the rock like a new storm-tone of the ocean's to
turn eyes westward
The navy's new-bought Zeppelin going by in the twilight,
Far out seaward; relative only to the evening star and the ocean
It slides into a cloud over Point Lobos.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFDGHIFJKLLMNKOP |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 146 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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