Analysis of Harry Ploughman
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Hard as hurdle arms, with a broth of goldish flue
Breathed round; the rack of ribs; the scooped flank; lank
Rope-over thigh; knee-nave; and barrelled shank -
Head and foot, shoulder and shank -
By a grey eye's heed steered well, one crew, fall to;
Stand at stress. Each limb's barrowy brawn, his thew
That onewhere curded, onewhere sucked or sank -
Soared or sank - ,
Though as a beechbole firm, finds his, as at a roll- call, rank
And features, in flesh, what deed he each must do -
His sinew-service where do.
He leans to it, Harry bends, look. Back, elbow, and liquid waist
In him, all quail to the wallowing o' the plough:'s cheek crimsons; curls
Wag or crossbridle, in a wind lifted, windlaced -
See his wind- lilylocks -laced;
Churlsgrace, too, child of Amansstrength, how it hangs or hurls
Them - broad in bluff hide his frowning feet lashed! raced
With, along them, cragiron under and cold furls -
With-a-fountain's shining-shot furls.
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Metre | 11101101111 1101110111 110111011 1011001 10111111111 111111111 1111111 111 1101111110111 01001111111 111011 11111011110101 011110100101111 111001101 11111 1111111111 11011110111 1011110011 1011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 359 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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