Analysis of Duns Scotus's Oxford

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



Towery city |&| branchy between towers;
   Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarm{`e}d, lark charm{`e}d, rook racked,
river-rounded;
   The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country |&| town did
 Once encounter in, here coped |&| pois{`e}d powers;
 Thou hast a base |&| brickish skirt there, sours
   That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded
   Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded
 Rural, rural keeping -- folk, flocks, |&| flowers.

Yet ah! this air I gather |&| I release
   He lived on: these weeds |&| waters, these walls are what
 He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
   Of realty the rarest-vein{`e}d unraveller; a not
 Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;
   Who f{'i}red Fr{'a}nce for M{'a}ry with{'o}ut sp{'o}t.


Scheme AXXBAABBA CXCXCX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010110 11001111111111 1010 0111001111011 101001111110 110111110 11101110110 1010111010 1010101110 1111110101 11111101111 11011111111011 1100010111101 1111010011 11111111111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 752
Words 117
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 6
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 271
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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