Analysis of The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
Scheme | AAAAAAAA XBC BCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 11110111100110 101010011101010 1111101011011 01100111111 101111101101010 0101111010 110100110100101 110010111111 10001011111010 11111001101 1101110111111 101110111 1101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 799 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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