Analysis of Flood
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Goldbrown upon the sated flood
The rockvine clusters lift and sway;
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.
A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.
Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Your clustered fruits to love's full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude!
| Scheme | ABXB CDCD EAEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010101 0110101 110101101 1101 01110100 1011101 1101110101 0101 10011101 11011111 101010111 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 375 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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