Analysis of From Dewy Dreams

James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)



From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
From love's deep slumber and from death,
For lo! the treees are full of sighs
Whose leaves the morn admonisheth.

Eastward the gradual dawn prevails
Where softly-burning fires appear,
Making to tremble all those veils
Of grey and golden gossamer.

While sweetly, gently, secretly,
The flowery bells of morn are stirred
And the wise choirs of faery
Begin (innumerous!) to be heard.


Scheme ABAB CDCX XEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11011101 11110011 11011111 11011 100100101 110101001 10110111 11010100 11010100 010011111 001111 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 420
Words 71
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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James Joyce

ames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.  more…

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