Analysis of Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
I heard their young hearts crying
Loveward above the glancing oar
And heard the prairie grasses sighing:
No more, return no more!
O hearts, O sighing grasses,
Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!
No more will the wild wind that passes
Return, no more return.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1111110 1010101 010101010 110111 1111010 101111 111011110 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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