Analysis of The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
To Christ our Lord
I caught this morning morning's minion, king{\-}
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-d{'a}wn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the r{'o}lling level {'u}ndern{'e}ath him steady {'a}ir, |&|
str{'i}ding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl |&| gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, -- the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty |&| valour |&| act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, o my chevalier!
No w{'o}nder of it: sh{'e}er pl{'o}d makes pl{'o}ugh down s{'i}llion
Shine, |&| blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, g{'a}ll thems{'e}lves, |&| g{'a}sh g{'o}ld-verm{'i}lion.
Scheme | XAABAAAAAA BCBCBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1111010101 1111011111100110 1011110111111011 111 1111101011011 01100111111 10111110110110 0101111010 110100110100101 1101111111 10001011111010 11111001101 1100111111011111111111 11110111 11111111111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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