Analysis of Cheery Beggar

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)



Beyond Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain,
In Summer, in a burst of summertime
Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;
. . . . . . . .
The motion of that man’s heart is fine
Whom want could not make píne, píne
That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer him
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.
. . . . . . . .


Scheme ABACB DEFD
Poetic Form
Metre 011101011011101 010001110 10010111 1011101010111 11011110101 1 010111111 111111111 1100111101111 11110111111 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 488
Words 84
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 350
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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