Analysis of I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light's delay.
With witness I speak this. But where I say
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
To dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
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Metre | 1101011111 11011110111 1111111111 0110110101 1101111111 10111110101 1110111101 1101110101 11111111101 1011111111 1101111101 11100111011 0111101111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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