Analysis of My Love Is in a Light Attire
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,
Where the gay winds do most desire
To run in companies.
There, where the gay winds stay to woo
The young leaves as they pass,
My love goes slowly, bending to
Her shadow on the grass;
And where the sky's a pale blue cup
Over the laughing land,
My love goes lightly, holding up
Her dress with dainty hand.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111001010 010101 101111010 110100 11011111 011111 11110101 01101 01010111 100101 11110101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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