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Be Not Sad Because All Men

James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)

Be not sad because all men
Prefer a lying clamour before you:
Sweetheart, be at peace again,
Can they dishonour you?
  
They are sadder than all tears;
Their lives ascend as a continual sigh.
Proudly answer to their tears:
As they deny, deny.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 235
Words 44
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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James Joyce

ames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.  more…

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