Analysis of Tilly
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
He travels after a winter sun,
Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
Calling to them, a voice they know,
He drives his beasts above Cabra.
The voice tells them home is warm.
They moo and make brute music with their hoofs.
He drives them with a flowering branch before him,
Smoke pluming their foreheads.
Boor, bond of the herd,
Tonight stretch full by the fire!
I bleed by the black stream
For my torn bough!
| Scheme | XXXA XXXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100101 10010010111 10110111 1111011 0111111 1101110111 111101001011 1111 11101 01111010 111011 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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