Analysis of The Times Are Nightfall
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;
The times are winter, watch, a world undone:
They waste, they wither worse; they as they run
Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress.
And I not help. Nor word now of success:
All is from wreck, here, there, to rescue one—
Work which to see scarce so much as begun
Makes welcome death, does dear forgetfulness.
Or what is else? There is your world within.
There rid the dragons, root out there the sin.
Your will is law in that small commonweal…
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111111 0111010101 1111011111 111111101 0111111101 1111111101 1111111101 1101111 1111111101 1101011101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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