Analysis of Ribblesdale
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
That canst but only be, but dost that long—
Thou canst but be, but that thou well dost; strong
Thy plea with him who dealt, nay does now deal,
Thy lovely dale down thus and thus bids reel
Thy river, and o’er gives all to rack or wrong.
And what is Earth’s eye, tongue, or heart else, where
Else, but in dear and dogged man?—Ah, the heir
To his own selfbent so bound, so tied to his turn,
To thriftless reave both our rich round world bare
And none reck of world after, this bids wear
Earth brows of such care, care and dear concern.
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Metre | 111111111 01111101101 1111111111 1111011111 1111111111 1111111111 1101110111 11001111111 0111111111 1101011101 11111111111 1111101111 0111110111 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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