Analysis of All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is when, going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the water's
Monotone.
The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
To and fro.
| Scheme | ABCBAB CDADCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101110 101 110111110 101 110111010 10 011011110 111 110111010 101 111111110 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 301 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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