Analysis of Simples
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
O bella bionda,
Sei come l'onda!
Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild
The moon a web of silence weaves
In the still garden where a child
Gathers the simple salad leaves.
A moondew stars her hanging hair
And moonlight kisses her young brow
And, gathering, she sings an air:
Fair as the wave is, fair, art thou!
Be mine, I pray, a waxen ear
To shield me from her childish croon
And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.
Scheme | AA ABAB CDCD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 111 111101001 01011101 00110101 10010101 0110101 0110011 01001111 11011111 1111011 11110101 01010110 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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