Analysis of Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Of that so sweet imprisonment
My soul, dearest, is fain -- -
Soft arms that woo me to relent
And woo me to detain.
Ah, could they ever hold me there
Gladly were I a prisoner!
Dearest, through interwoven arms
By love made tremulous,
That night allures me where alarms
Nowise may trouble us;
But lseep to dreamier sleep be wed
Where soul with soul lies prisoned.
| Scheme | XAXAXX BCBCXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110100 111011 11111101 011101 11110111 10010100 1010101 111100 1111101 11101 1111111 1111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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