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
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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