Analysis of On the Beach at Fontana
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Wind whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pierstakes groan;
A senile sea numbers each single
Slimesilvered stone.
From whining wind and colder
Grey sea I wrap him warm
And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder
And boyish arm.
Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above
And in my heart how deep unending
Ache of love!
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101010 01011 01110110 11 1101010 111111 011100110 0101 0111010 101101 001111010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 326 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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