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.
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Scheme | ABACB DEFD |
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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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