This is an analysis of Tilly by James Joyce.
He travels after a winter sun,
Urging the cattle along a cold red road,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabX cXcX aXcb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 110100101 10010010111 10000111 11010110 0110101 1111110011 110001001011 110111 11001 01111010 111011 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12