Analysis of Praise Life
Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)
This country least, but every inhabited country
Is clotted with human anguish.
Remember that at your feasts.
And this is no new thing but from time out of mind,
No transient thing, but exactly
Conterminous with human life.
Praise life, it deserves praise, but the praise of life
That forgets the pain is a pebble
Rattled in a dry gourd.
| Scheme | AXX XAB BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011100010010 11011010 0101111 011111111111 11011010 11101 11101110111 101011010 100011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 336 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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