Analysis of New Year’s Eve
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy
drunkard
Babbles a woeful song and babbles
The end of the world, the moon's like fired Troy in a flying
cloud, the storm
Rises again, the stream's in flood.
The moon's like the sack of Carthage, the Bastile's broken, pedlars
and empires
Still deal in luxury, men sleep in prison.
Old Saturn thinks it was better in his grandsire's time but that's
from the brittle
Arteries, it neither betters nor worsens.
(Nobody knows my love the falcon.)
It has always bristled with phantoms, always factitious, mildly absurd;
The organism, with no precipitous
Degeneration, slight imperceptible discounts of sense and faculty,
Adapts itself to the culture-medium.
(Nobody crawls to the test-tube rim,
Nobody knows my love the falcon.)
The star's on the mountain, the stream snoring in flood; the brain-lit
drunkard
Crosses midnight and stammers to bed.
The inhuman nobility of things, the ecstatic beauty, the inveterate
steadfastness
Uphold the four posts of the bed.
(Nobody knows my love the falcon.)
Scheme | aBcdefccgchcGbcaijGkBlmclG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001001010010010 10 1010101 011010111010010 101 10010101 0110111001101 0100 11010011010 11011110011111 1010 10011010110 1111010 1111011010101001 0100110100 00101010001110100 01011010100 1110111 1111010 011010011001011 10 1010111 001001001100101000100 10 01011101 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,038 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 843 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 170 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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