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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