Analysis of Who Goes Amid the Green Wood
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
Who goes amid the green wood
With springtide all adorning her?
Who goes amid the merry green wood
To make it merrier?
Who passes in the sunlight
By ways that know the light footfall?
Who passes in the sweet sunlight
With mien so virginal?
The ways of all the woodland
Gleam with a soft and golden fire -- -
For whom does all the sunny woodland
Carry so brave attire?
O, it is for my true love
The woods their rich apparel wear -- -
O, it is for my own true love,
That is so young and fair.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DBDB EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1101011 1110100 110101011 111100 110001 1111011 1100011 111100 011101 110101010 11110101 1011010 1111111 01110101 11111111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 497 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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