Analysis of The Times Are Nightfall

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)



The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;
The times are winter, watch, a world undone:
They waste, they wither worse; they as they run
Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress.
And I not help. Nor word now of success:
All is from wreck, here, there, to rescue one—
Work which to see scarce so much as begun
Makes welcome death, does dear forgetfulness.

Or what is else? There is your world within.
There rid the dragons, root out there the sin.
Your will is law in that small commonweal…


Scheme ABBAABBA CCX
Poetic Form
Metre 011111111 0111010101 1111011111 111111101 0111111101 1111111101 1111111101 1101111 1111111101 1101011101 11110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 515
Words 95
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 3
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 194
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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