Analysis of She Weeps over Rahoon
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling,
At grey moonrise.
Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling,
Then as now.
Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.
| Scheme | ABAB CAAC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101010 111101 11111111010 111 111 11111111010 1010001110 111 11101111101 111111 100110011 01001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 388 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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