Analysis of Hope Holds to Christ
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
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Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out
To take His lovely likeness more and more.
It will not well, so she would bring about
An ever brighter burnish than before
And turns to wash it from her welling eyes
And breathes the blots off all with sighs on sighs.
Her glass is blest but she as good as blind
Holds till hand aches and wonders what is there;
Her glass drinks light, she darkles down behind,
All of her glorious gainings unaware.
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I told you that she turned her mirror dim
Betweenwhiles, but she sees herself not Him.
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Scheme | ABABCCDEDE FF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 1111011101 1111010101 1111111101 1101010101 0111110101 0101111111 0111111111 1111010111 011111101 110100101 1 1111110101 11110111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 422 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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