Analysis of To His Watch
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart
Warm beat with cold beat company, shall I
Earlier or you fail at our force, and lie
The ruins of, rifled, once a world of art?
The telling time our task is; time’s some part,
Not all, but we were framed to fail and die—
One spell and well that one. There, ah thereby
Is comfort’s carol of all or woe’s worst smart.
Field-flown, the departed day no morning brings
Saying ‘This was yours’ with her, but new one, worse,
And then that last and shortest…
| Scheme | ABBAABBA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101101 1111110011 100111110101 01011010111 01011011111 1111011101 1101111111 11010111111 11001011101 10111101111 0111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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