Analysis of White Fields

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950



In the winter time we go
Walking in the fields of snow;

Where there is no grass at all;
Where the top of every wall,

Every fence, and every tree,
Is as white as white can be.

Pointing out the way we came,
-Every one of them the same-

All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree;

And our mothers always know,
By the footprints in the snow,

Where it is the children go.


Scheme AA BB CC DD CC AA A
Poetic Form
Metre 0010111 1000111 1111111 10111001 100101001 1111111 1010111 10011101 1010111 101010 0101011 101001 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 379
Words 80
Sentences 3
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 13, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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