Analysis of Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Dear heart, why will you use me so?
Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,
Still are you beautiful -- - but O,
How is your beauty raimented!
Through the clear mirror of your eyes,
Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss,
Desolate winds assail with cries
The shadowy garden where love is.
And soon shall love dissolved be
When over us the wild winds blow -- -
But you, dear love, too dear to me,
Alas! why will you use me so?
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DADA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum |
| Metre | 11111111 1111011 11110011 111101 10110111 10111111 10010111 010010111 0111011 11010111 11111111 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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