Analysis of The Sea Took Pity
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:
‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand:
Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb,
And she shall child them on the New-world strand.’
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| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 011101111 1111011111 1101111001 0111110111 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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