Analysis of Duns Scotus's Oxford
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Towery city |&| branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarm{`e}d, lark charm{`e}d, rook racked,
river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country |&| town did
Once encounter in, here coped |&| pois{`e}d powers;
Thou hast a base |&| brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded
Rural, rural keeping -- folk, flocks, |&| flowers.
Yet ah! this air I gather |&| I release
He lived on: these weeds |&| waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
Of realty the rarest-vein{`e}d unraveller; a not
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;
Who f{'i}red Fr{'a}nce for M{'a}ry with{'o}ut sp{'o}t.
Scheme | AXXBAABBA CXCXCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010110 11001111111111 1010 0111001111011 101001111110 110111110 11101110110 1010111010 1010101110 1111110101 11111101111 11011111111011 1100010111101 1111010011 11111111111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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