Analysis of The White Wido

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950



The moon comes every night to peep
  Through the window where I lie,
And I pretend to be asleep;
  But I watch the moon as it goes by,
And it never makes a sound.

It stands and stares, and then it goes
  To the house that's next to me,
Stealing on its tippy-toes,
  To peep at folk asleep maybe;
And it never makes a sound.


Scheme ababC dedeC
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 011100111 1010111 01011101 111011111 0110101 11010111 1011111 1011101 11110110 0110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 322
Words 67
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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