Analysis of What Being in Rank-Old Nature
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?
With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
. . . . . . . .
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling
Scheme | ABCBDD E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100111011001111 11111111111001 01110111111 10111100110011110111 1100110010011101 11101010101 1 1011100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 325 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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