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.


Scheme ABBAABBA CCDCCD
Poetic Form
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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