Analysis of Lightly Come or Lightly Go
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Lightly come or lightly go:
Though thy heart presage thee woe,
Vales and many a wasted sun,
Oread let thy laughter run,
Till the irreverent mountain air
Ripple all thy flying hair.
Lightly, lightly -- - ever so:
Clouds that wrap the vales below
At the hour of evenstar
Lowliest attendants are;
Love and laughter song-confessed
When the heart is heaviest.
| Scheme | AABBCC AACXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1111011 10100101 111101 100100101 1011101 1010101 1110101 101011 10101 1010101 1011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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