Analysis of Inversnaid
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fawn-froth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew,
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111 111101 0100101111 10110111 0110111 1011001 10111110 110101110 111111 10110110111 101111 0011111001 11011101 110101111 111111001 1101001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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