This is an analysis of O Cool Is The Valley Now by James Joyce.

O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1100101 111011 1100100101 110111 111101010 10101 111100010 111011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anadiplosis

calling