Analysis of O Cool Is the Valley Now
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go
For many a choir is singing now
Where Love did sometime go.
And hear you not the thrushes calling,
Calling us away?
O cool and pleasant is the valley
And there, love, will we stay.
| Scheme | ABABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 011111 1100101101 11111 011101010 10101 110101010 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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