Analysis of Bid Adieu to Maidenhood
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,
Happy Love is come to woo
Thee and woo thy girlish ways—
The zone that doth become thee fair,
The snood upon thy yellow hair,
When thou hast heard his name upon
The bugles of the cherubim
Begin thou softly to unzone
Thy girlish bosom unto him
And softly to undo the snood
That is the sign of maidenhood.
| Scheme | ABABCC DEDEAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 1011101 1011111 1011101 01110111 01011101 11111101 010101 0111011 11010101 01010101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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