Analysis of Night Piece
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Gaunt in gloom,
The pale stars their torches,
Enshrouded, wave.
Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume,
Arches on soaring arches,
Night's sindark nave.
Seraphim,
The lost hosts awaken
To service till
In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim,
Raised when she has and shaken
Her thurible.
And long and loud,
To night's nave upsoaring,
A starknell tolls
As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,
Voidward from the adoring
Waste of souls.
Scheme | AXBAXB ACDXCD EFGEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 011110 0101 111011011 1011010 111 1 011010 1101 011110101 1111010 01 0101 1111 011 1010110111 110010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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