Analysis of Go Seek Her Out

James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)



Go seek her out all courteously,
And say I come,
Wind of spices whose song is ever
Epithalamium.
O, hurry over the dark lands
And run upon the sea
For seas and lands shall not divide us
My love and me.

Now, wind, of your good courtesy
I pray you go,
And come into her little garden
And sing at her window;
Singing: The bridal wind is blowing
For Love is at his noon;
And soon will your true love be with you,
Soon, O soon.


Scheme XAXAXBXB BCXCXDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 0111 111011110 1 11010011 010101 110111011 1101 11111100 1111 010101010 011010 100101110 111111 011111111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 430
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 162
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 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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