Analysis of Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111111 111101010111 11111111110 111111111011 11111111101 011101010111 11011111101 110111110100 1111010011111 111111111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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