Joyce

She was an active, practical woman of middle age.

Not long before she had celebrated her silver wedding and renewed her intimacy with her husband by waltzing with him to Mr. Power's accompaniment.

In her days of courtship, Mr. Kernan had seemed to her a not ungallant figure: and she still hurried to the chapel door whenever a wedding was reported and, seeing the bridal pair, recalled with vivid pleasure how she had passed out of the Star of the Sea Church in Sandymount, leaning on the arm of a jovial well-fed man, who was dressed smartly in a frock-coat and lavender trousers and carried a silk hat gracefully balanced upon his other arm [Compound sentence with semicolon, no conjunction].

After three weeks she had found a wife's life irksome and, later on, when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she had become a mother[A series with variation].

The part of mother presented to her no insuperable difficulties and for twenty-five years she had kept house shrewdly for her husband [pattern9a].

Her two eldest sons were launched [simple].

One was in a draper's shop in Glasgow and the other was clerk to a tea- merchant in Belfast.

They were good sons, wrote regularly and sometimes sent home money [pattern 7a].

The other children were still at school [Simple sentence].

Poetic devices noted:
Alliteration - "Celebrated her silver" and "intimacy with her husband by waltzing"
Strange word choice - irksome
Repetition - "mother. The part of mother..."