Analysis of Andromeda
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Now Time’s Andromeda on this rock rude,
With not her either beauty’s equal or
Her injury’s, looks off by both horns of shore,
Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon’s food.
Time past she has been attempted and pursued
By many blows and banes; but now hears roar
A wilder beast from West than all were, more
Rife in her wrongs, more lawless, and more lewd.
Her Perseus linger and leave her tó her extremes?—
Pillowy air he treads a time and hangs
His thoughts on her, forsaken that she seems,
All while her patience, morselled into pangs,
Mounts; then to alight disarming, no one dreams,
With Gorgon’s gear and barebill, thongs and fangs.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1101001111 110101101 011111111 010011101101 11111010001 1101011111 0101111101 1001110011 0100100101001 11110101 1110010111 110101011 11101010111 110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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