Analysis of The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
Had swarthed about with lion-brown
Before the Spring was done.
His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
With hempen strands in spray—
Fallow, foam-fallow, hanks—fall’n off their ranks,
Swung down at a disarray.
Or like a juicy and jostling shock
Of bluebells sheaved in May
Or wind-long fleeces on the flock
A day off shearing day.
Then over his turnèd temples—here—
Was a rose, or, failing that,
Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear
For a beauty-bow to his hat,
And the sunlight sidled, like dewdrops, like dandled diamonds
Through the sieve of the straw of the plait.
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Scheme | ABAB XCXC DCDC XEXEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111 11010101 11011101 010111 111101011 110101 11111111 111001 1101001001 11101 11110101 011101 110111101 1011101 1101111001 10101111 00110111110 101101101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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