Analysis of At That Hour
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
The pale gates of sunrise?
When all things repose, do you alone
Awake to hear the sweet harps play
To Love before him on his way,
And the night wind answering in antiphon
Till night is overgone?
Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,
Whose way in heaven is aglow
At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
And in the earth below.
Scheme | ABBAB CDDXC EFFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111101 11010101 111011001 111010111 01111 111011101 01110111 11011111 0011100010 1111 1101001101 11010101 1110111101 111000101 000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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